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[bug-recutils] Unable to assign the value of Count contained in a variab


From: Héctor A . Abreu
Subject: [bug-recutils] Unable to assign the value of Count contained in a variable to -n option
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 13:23:21 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

Hi,

I have the contacts.rec file below:

Name: Granny
Phone: +12 23456677

Name: Doctor
Phone: +12 58999222

Name: Dad
Phone: +12 88229900

And I want to display the Name in the last record using the script 
script_variable_index.sh below:

number_of_records=$(recsel -P "Count(Name)" contacts.rec)
name_in_last_record=$(recsel -P Name -n "$number_of_records" contacts.rec)
echo "Name in last record: $name_in_last_record"

But I get the following output:

Name in last record:

So, not displaying any Name. It will only display the Name in last record 
correctly in the following cases:

1) When number_of_records is set to a constant value at the beginning of the 
script, like any of the following examples:
number_of_records=0
number_of_records=1
number_of_records=2

2) When the option -n is followed by any number between 0 and 2, for example:
name_in_last_record=$(recsel -P Name -n 1 contacts.rec)

I've checked that number_of_records=$(recsel -P "Count(Name)" contacts.rec) is 
assigning the value correctly. Please let me know if I need to add anything 
extra to that line, or if it's a bug.

Thank you in advance for all your help.
-- 
Héctor A. Abreu




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