Shell Programming and Scripting

I don't know why it doesn't show "- 2" in your terminal. There is no way for me to see your terminal from here. So unless you provide me more information, I cannot say why it fails in your terminal.

In my post, I showed my input file "f26". Then I showed and execute the Perl one-liner. And then you can see the results and see that it works as expected. All the information you ever wanted to know about the problem and the solution is there. The information is self-contained, i.e. it's complete in itself. You have to do the same to help me help you.

Otherwise it's like asking on the Internet - "my car is not working; what's the problem?" I doubt if anyone can answer that question on the Internet, given that amount of information.

Do the following -

(1) Post the content of your input file using the following command:

Code:

cat -n <your_input_file>

(2) Post the script that you executed. If it is in a file, post the content of that file using the "cat" command shown above.

(3) Execute your script, feeding the input file to it. Then copy the entire execution and resultset from your terminal and paste it over here.

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