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# 1  
Old 03-15-2006
how can i write the following statements on one line?
Hi,

At the moment, I have the following statements which show like this, but I want it all on one line. How can I do this?

----------------------------
echo "There are"
cat menu | wc -l
echo "characters in the text"
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Thanks!
# 2  
Old 03-15-2006
echo "There are $(cat file|wc -l) characters in the text"

Bye
# 3  
Old 03-15-2006
Well I would suggest that you don't do "cat menu | wc -l". Instead use "wc -l < menu". This saves a process. And I don't have the context of this code snippet, so I guess I will assume it is basicly correct despite the fact that "wc -l" is counting lines but you label the output "characters".

So my solution for ksh or bash is:

echo "There are $(wc -l < menu) characters in the text."
# 4  
Old 03-15-2006
try it
echo "There are `cat menu | wc -l ` characters in the text"
# 5  
Old 03-15-2006
thanks for the replies. one last question..how would i search for the amount of 'e' characters in a file? or the amount of any character for that matter.
# 6  
Old 03-15-2006
grep -c "e" file


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