On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:29:23AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > well, I didn't know about wc -c, thanks. however, the output, > > at least on my system, is not easily parsable, as it is oddly > > aligned, with varying amounts of space. > > If you use "wc -c < file" instead of "wc -c file" then wc > doesn't print the file name.
ah, nice. I was worried about the leading spaces as well, but printf seems to take care of that: $ tb=0; for i in *; do b=`wc -c < $i`; b=`printf "%d" $b`; \ tb=`expr $tb + $b`; done; echo $tb -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
