On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 03:04:41PM +0200, Iwan Mouwen wrote: > * Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010428 23:09]: > > 10:48 $ psselect -p _1 zeeman.ps > /dev/null > > [8] Wrote 1 pages, 86473 bytes > > Shouldn't that be > psselect -p - file.ps > /dev/null > instead? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ psselect -p _1 report.ps >/dev/null > [11] Wrote 1 pages, 68447 bytes > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ psselect -p - report.ps >/dev/null > [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] Wrote 11 pages, 100834 bytes
That also works; the question was how to find out the number of pages in the document, though, so I only care about the last number. You could even do 16:28 $ psselect -p _1 xray.ps 2>&1 > /dev/null | tr "[]" "\n\n" | grep ^[0-9] 8 although I'm sure there's a more elegant way. Rob -- "Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even one which cannot be justified on any other grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC.