Am Sonntag 11 Januar 2004 15:53 schrieb Ben Steeves: > On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 10:45, Hans Müller wrote: > > Hello when i use the wc command i get many spaces. > > for example: > > [frank@homer dnetc483-linux-x86-elf]$ ls|wc -l > > 6 > > [frank@homer dnetc483-linux-x86-elf]$ > > but at all scipt saples the output are: > > [xxxx@xxx]$ ls|wc -l > > x > > [xxxx@xxx]$ > > so i cannot use the output in a script. Who can help? > > It's not a bug -- it's the way wc has worked since time immemorial. > Observe: > [bcs@phalanx bcs]$ ls | wc -l > 126 > [bcs@phalanx bcs]$ echo `ls | wc -l` > 126 works, but my script will not her the code: #!/bin/sh Zeilen= echo `cat /tmp/test.txt |wc -l` if [ $Zeilen > 3 ]; then echo "Update"; else echo "kein Update"; fi i get every time the output: 4 kein Update but the file has 4 lines what is wrong????? > [bcs@phalanx bcs]$ if [ `ls | wc -l` == 126 ]; then echo "OK"; fi > OK > > ...basically, the shell commands will swallow the extra spaces. > > -- > Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx > The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx > against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 > http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
