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How do a redirect and output of a command to a variable: For example: wc -l < text how do i store the output in, let's say variable 'count' Thnx

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You can do : count=`wc -l <text` The problem is that there are leading spaces before the count value, if you want to remove then you can do : count=`wc -l <file | awk '{print $1}'` Jean-Pierre.

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Name: nails
Date: April 8, 2004 at 15:32:05 Pacific

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Hi: If you are using ksh, you can remove the white space by just adding zero: yy=$(($(wc -l < text) + 0)) Regards, Ed

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The + 0 is not necessary, you can do : yy=$(($(wc -l <text))) Jean-Pierre.

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