Hello, if you need a specific wc output field, the words count in this case, you can use the command `wc -w FILE'. Is it what you want?
Regards, Giuseppe Iram CHELLI <iram.che...@loria.fr> writes: > Hello, > > > i am using wc in shell scripts > > the exact command is: > > wc FILE | cut -d " " -f 2 > > it usually works but sometimes wc outputs the result in a different > formatting, that is, I have to do a cut -d " " -f 3 to get the wc. > > This is not very convenient that the wc program shall not return > results in a fixed formatting. > > > Regards, > > Iram > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-coreutils mailing list > Bug-coreutils@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
