On 2003-05-24 13:44:38, 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
If you mean 150 in the last example, then use:
cat 1.txt | wc -l | tr -d ' '
If you insist on the format you used in the above, then use something
like:
wc -l 1.txt | sed 's/[ ]*\([0-9]*\).*/\1/' or
wc -l 1.txt | awk '{print $1}'
/Allan
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