Help with wc and subtraction needed

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To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Help with wc and subtraction needed
From: "Matthew Benjamin" <msbenjamin12@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:28:46 -0500
Reply-to: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

I have a command that I am trying to read a particular amount of lines with

wc -l somefile | awk '{print $1}'

when it givs the number of lines, I am trying to find out how to use that number in an addition problem. Can someone help me with that?

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mB.

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