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Old 12-09-2008
Displaying number of lines from file
Hi,

I am using below command to display the number of line, but its returning no of lines along with file name.

But i want only no of line in the variable p.

Please help me on this?

p=`wc -l "text file"`
echo "$p"
# 2  
Old 12-09-2008
Code:
p=`wc -l < text file`
echo "$p"

# 3  
Old 12-09-2008
but p returning values with leading space. how could i avoid those leading space?
# 4  
Old 12-09-2008
It does show no leading blank in my case after adding the redirection. You can always just pipe it into for example:
Code:
..| awk '{print $1}'

or something.
# 5  
Old 12-09-2008
Does this help?
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...ed-oracle.html
# 6  
Old 12-09-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by shivanete
but p returning values with leading space. how could i avoid those leading space?
Code:
nl=$(($(wc -l<filename)))

Last edited by radoulov; 12-10-2008 at 04:41 AM..
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Old 12-10-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by shivanete
Hi,

I am using below command to display the number of line, but its returning no of lines along with file name.

But i want only no of line in the variable p.

Please help me on this?

p=`wc -l &quot;text file&quot;`
echo &quot;$p&quot;
you may want to consider using this command instead:
Code:
 sed -n '$=' filename

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