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Re: wc

From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: wc
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:48:01 +0100
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Iram CHELLI wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> i am using wc in shell scripts
> 
> the exact command is:
> 
>     wc FILE | cut -d " " -f 2

You probably want to squeeze adjacent blanks:

wc FILE | tr -s '[:blank:]' ' ' | cut -d' ' -f2

cheers,
Pádraig.
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