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Re: I upgraded the wc tool
From: |
James Youngman |
Subject: |
Re: I upgraded the wc tool |
Date: |
Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:50:11 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 04:17:53PM +0200, Herve Seignole wrote:
> if [ `wc -l -n foo.txt` = 1 ]
> then
> echo "here"
> fi
Are these options really necessary? Why not just use this?
# use '-eq' test for numeric equality, since '=' compares strings.
if [ $(wc -l < foo.txt) -eq 1 ] ; then
echo here
fi
Regards,
James.