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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Wierd issue using wc -l in a script Post 302340933 by methyl on Tuesday 4th of August 2009 05:12:08 PM
Old 08-04-2009
Ignoring the typo abc_ .
This should fix it.

Code:
file_cnt=`cat abc | wc -l | sed -e "s/ //g"`

I have seen this issue in various unixes.
Had you stated which Operating System and Shell you were using the answer would be more specific.
 

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tidy::head - Returns atidyNodeobject starting from the <head> tag of the tidy parse tree

       Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
tidyNode tidy::head (void ) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style tidyNode tidy_get_head (tidy $object) Returns a tidyNode object starting from the <head> tag of the tidy parse tree. PARAMETERS
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