Help with wc and subtraction needed

[Matthew Benjamin]

I have a command that I am trying to read a particular amount of lines with

wc -l somefile | awk '{print $1}'

when it givs the number of lines, I am trying to find out how to use that
number in an addition problem. Can someone help me with that?


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mB.
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