Very sweet that work perfect, thanks!<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Todd Zullinger</b> <<a href="mailto:tmz@pobox.com">tmz@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Matthew Benjamin wrote:<br>> I have a command that I am trying to read a particular amount of<br>> lines with<br>><br>> wc -l somefile | awk '{print $1}'<br>><br>> when it givs the number of lines, I am trying to find out how to use
<br>> that number in an addition problem. Can someone help me with that?<br><br>lines=$(wc -l somefile | awk '{print $1}')<br>res=$(($lines + 42))<br><br>That's bash specific, so depending on how portable you want the script
<br>to be, you'd need to do things slightly differently. There are a ton<br>of ways you could do something like this. Some bash guides might be<br>helpful:<br><br>BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO<br><a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html">
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html</a><br><br>Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide<br><a href="http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/">http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/</a><br><br>--<br>Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL:
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