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Old 10-22-2011
nope, and when its complete it will a nice solution.
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Old 10-25-2011
Many many Thanks . All your suggeation togather helped me to frame my script. This helped ..!!!
# 10  
Old 10-28-2011
Hi,

Many thanks. COuld you please help me with NUMCHAR please.

The NUMCHAR below should count all including all line feeds/carriage returns, except the last one with in each file.

Thanks....


Quote:
Originally Posted by chedlee88-1
#!/bin/sh

for i in filelist*
do
NUMCHAR=`cat $i | wc -c`
echo "ABC,$NUMCHAR" >${i}.new
cat $i >>${i}.new
done
 
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