Hi, wc -l
does give a result with leading blanks. This makes it difficult to work with the result in scripts, like: N=$(ls | wc -l) to know the number of entries in a directory. I now get arround it with sed - but it seems quite uncomfortable to invoke another time consuming program just to "clean up" a simple result. Regards Hearp _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
