Re: Query on wc

[Eric Blake]

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According to Vinu, Uma on 8/8/2006 9:59 PM:
> 
> ls -l <Dir> | grep core | wc -l  ----- The directory doesn't has the
> core file.
> 
> But wc -l returns a blank line instead of a 0. I need the output to be
> 0. 

It worked for me:
$ ls core
ls: core: No such file or directory
$ ls -l . | grep core | wc -l
0

> 
> Why does this happen? Your reply will be of great help.

Perhaps you need to upgrade?  The latest stable version of coreutils is 5.97.

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