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
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We have a Winner!

Thanks.
Kenny


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