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B20 quote(') eval
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- Subject: B20 quote(') eval
- From: Richard Schulte <rschulte at geocities dot com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:19:30 -0600
I'm having problems with a command to place the number of lines in a
file into an integer variable in Bash. The command
declare -i count=`wc -l address.tab | awk --source="{print \$1}"`
gives me the error
"C:/bin/bash.exe": declare: 6558 address.tab: syntax error in expression
(error token is "address.tab")
which is the same error you would get if you enter the command
declare -i count=`wc -l address.tab`
it appears the pipe( | ) in the quoted command is being ignored. Is
this normal behavior?
richard
--
Richard Schulte "Vanity of vanities! All is vanity"
rschulte@geocities.com Ecclesiastes 1:2
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