Paul Iadonisi wrote: > 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 > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > *****************************************************************
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