Re: wc

[iram chelli]

Pádraig Brady a écrit :
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > You probably want to squeeze adjacent blanks:
> >
> > wc FILE | tr -s '[:blank:]' ' ' | cut -d' ' -f2
>
> Note you might wonder why cut doesn't support -d'[:blank:]'
> to auto skip runs of horizontal whitespace. Details here:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-05/threads.html#00153
>
> Note also that wc can output particular counts in isolation.
> I.E. this will get the same affect as your original:
>
> wc -w FILE | cut -d' ' -f1
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig.


Thanks Padraig,

I interesting information.

I had exactly been using this as a workaround.

Cheers,

Iram.