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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script with variable and condition Post 302749155 by Yoda on Thursday 27th of December 2012 04:15:12 PM
Old 12-27-2012
What RudiC mentioned is indeed an issue.

On top of that I see you are using single quote around the command:
Code:
'cat /nurp/control.lst|wc -l'

Replace that with:
Code:
SIZ=$( cat /nurp/control.lst|wc -l )

OR
Code:
SIZ=$( wc -l < /nurp/control.lst )

 

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