On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 16:45, Kenny Donahue wrote:
> Ok, here's one for all you bash experts out there.
> I have a line in a script that does this:
>
> lspci -d1134:1 | /usr/bin/wc -l
>
> The idea of course is to get the number of our boards in the
> system. the funny thing is, if I log in as root I get
> 2 /* Note the 6 blank spaces before the "2" */
>
> if I log in as my self or ssh into the machine and su to root, I get
> 2 /* note NO space before the "2" */
>
> if I ssh into the machine and "sh - " to root I get
> 2 /* Note the 6 blank spaces before the "2" */
> again. What's up.
>
> I did clean up the spaces with sed so this is not a functional problem.
Okay, do I get a case of [root] beer for figuring this out? ;-)
Check the setting of your POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable.
# lspci -d1134:1 | /usr/bin/wc -l
0
# export POSIXLY_CORRECT=1
# lspci -d1134:1 | /usr/bin/wc -l
0
It's in the man^Winfo page. (Note to others as annoyed as I am with
the FSF's trend away from man pages towards info pages -- for vi type
bindings, use pinfo instead of info availabe at
http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~pborys/ and bundled with Red Hat.)
--
-Paul Iadonisi
Senior System Administrator
Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist
Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux.
GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets
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