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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users list length Post 302499462 by methyl on Thursday 24th of February 2011 12:11:47 PM
Old 02-24-2011
The problem is that "wc" counts the number of line-feed characters. The echo "$a" line is generating a line-feed even if $a is empty.

Try avoiding the intermediate variable:
Code:
aCount=$(egrep -oh "exp" $logfiles|wc -l)

Also note the normal position of the options parameters on the "egrep" command line. Though your version happens to work for "egrep" in Linux, wandering from the command line described in a "man" page will eventually give you grief.

Also, please stop putting semi-colons at the end of lines. This is unix scripting not Oracle.
 

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EXP(3)							   BSD Library Functions Manual 						    EXP(3)

NAME
exp, expf, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, -- exponential functions LIBRARY
Math Library (libm, -lm) SYNOPSIS
#include <math.h> double exp(double x); float expf(float x); double exp2(double x); float exp2f(float x); double expm1(double x); float expm1f(float x); DESCRIPTION
The exp() and the expf() functions compute the base e exponential value of the given argument x. The exp2(), and exp2f() functions compute the base 2 exponential of the given argument x. The expm1() and the expm1f() functions computes the value exp(x)-1 accurately even for tiny argument x. RETURN VALUES
These functions will return the appropriate computation unless an error occurs or an argument is out of range. The functions exp() and expm1() detect if the computed value will overflow, set the global variable errno to ERANGE and cause a reserved operand fault on a VAX. SEE ALSO
math(3) STANDARDS
The exp() functions conform to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89''). The exp2(), exp2f(), expf(), expm1(), and expm1f() functions conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (``ISO C99''). HISTORY
The exp() functions appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. The expm1() function appeared in 4.3BSD. BSD
September 13, 2011 BSD
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