On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 01:44:38PM +0900, Tsuyoshi Takada wrote: > $ wc -l 1.txt > returns > " 150 1.txt" > > I want to extract the lines count "100" as the following, > > $ wc -l 1.txt | <some sommand> > returns > 100 Either: wc -l < 1.txt | sed -e 's/^ *//' or: wc -l 1.txt | sed -e 's/^ *//' | cut -d' ' -f1 Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]