Re: Help with wc and subtraction needed

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Very sweet that work perfect, thanks!


On 7/12/07, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Matthew Benjamin wrote:
> 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?

lines=$(wc -l somefile | awk '{print $1}')
res=$(($lines + 42))

That's bash specific, so depending on how portable you want the script
to be, you'd need to do things slightly differently.  There are a ton
of ways you could do something like this.  Some bash guides might be
helpful:

BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

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