Re: Bug#469525: coreutils: [wc] RFC: Add option --no-filename

[Bob Proulx]

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Bob


Jari Aalto wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 6.10-3
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Description:
> 
>       $ wc -l README
>       200 README
> 
> This is fine for interactive use, but not convenient in shell scripts,
> because the outpur cannot be easily handles. Many times only the
> integer value is needed:
> 
>       lines=$(wc -l $file)
> 
>       if [ $lines > $max ]; then              # ERROR!
>          ... do something
>       fi
> 
> SUGGESTION
> 
> Of course there are various workarounds, but it would be nice to have
> new option 
> 
>       --no-filename
> 
> That would suppress the filename from the ooutput listing. Naturally
> if multiple files were given:
> 
>       wc -l --no-filename  a b c 
> 
> The listing would only include the (-l) counts and suppress the names.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) 
> (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
> ii  libacl1                       2.2.45-1   Access control list shared 
> library
> ii  libc6                         2.7-8      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libselinux1                   2.0.35-1   SELinux shared libraries
> 
> coreutils recommends no packages.
> 
> -- debconf-show failed
> 
> 
> 
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