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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Count Command Help Post 302918859 by Don Cragun on Thursday 25th of September 2014 09:37:41 PM
Old 09-25-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by kadawtomtom978
Lols, that was a simple fix. Thanks a bunch!Smilie

Also, like I mentioned earlier. I'm very new to this. How did your code fix my issue?
Expanding on what Scrutinizer said...

When the wc utility is given one or more operands, it reads from the named file(s) and prints the number of complete lines in each file and the file's name(s). (If more than one operand is given, it also prints a total line at the end.)

When no operands are given, wc reads from standard input and only prints the number of complete lines it found.

If you don't mind reversing the order (# of lines before file name) and you don't mind the total line at the end, this should be much more efficient:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
cd /data/test/input
wc *.dat >> dat_results.out

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platform::shell

platform::shell(3tcl)					       Tcl Bundled Packages					     platform::shell(3tcl)

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NAME

       platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities

SYNOPSIS

       package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?

       platform::shell::generic shell
       platform::shell::identify shell
       platform::shell::platform shell
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DESCRIPTION

       The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell.

       This  package  allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only
       requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine.

       While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of  the  running  shell
       this  is  not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run
       32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers.

       For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will  actually  run  the  installed
       packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software.

COMMANDS

       platform::shell::identify shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::generic shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::platform shell
	      This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell.

KEYWORDS

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