Brent Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was using the command > > cat $FILE | head -1 | wc -w > > to get the number of words (columns) in a line of a file > > This worked until the number of words got over a certain number (I haven't > checked to find out where, but it looks like about 10,000)
Thanks for the report. There should be no effective limit. What version are you using? (what does `head --version' output?) If it's older than coreutils-5.0, please get a more recent version and try that. STABLE ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2 (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils) BETA ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.bz2 If you can still reproduce the problem, even with the latest package, please send me the output of your command: cat $FILE | tail -1 _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
