Re: wc

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hello,

if you need a specific wc output field, the words count in this case,
you can use the command `wc -w FILE'.  Is it what you want?

Regards,
Giuseppe


Iram CHELLI <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
>
> i am using wc in shell scripts
>
> the exact command is:
>
>     wc FILE | cut -d " " -f 2
>
> it usually works but sometimes wc outputs the result in a different
> formatting, that is, I have to do a cut -d " " -f 3 to get the wc.
>
> This is not very convenient that the wc program shall not return
> results in a fixed formatting.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Iram
>
>
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