topic Re: wc in Operating System - HP-UX

wc

Prabhu_7 — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:02:44 GMT

wc -l filename.txt

gives me ,
8 filename.txt

i want it to return only 8.
i want to check no of lines of one file with other one.

like ,
If wc -l f1.txt > wc -l f2.txt

Re: wc

PIYUSH D. PATEL — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:06:30 GMT

wc -l filename.txt | awk '{print $1}'

HTH,
Piyush

Re: wc

Mark Greene_1 — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:06:48 GMT

try this:

if [ `cat f1.txt|wc -l` -gt `cat f2.txt|wc -l` ]; then

do stuff for greater than condition here

else

do stuff for not greater than condition here

fi

Note that I used the grave (backquotes) in the if statement.

HTH
mark

Re: wc

Jeff Schussele — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:08:23 GMT

Hi Prabhu,

Try this:

wc -l filename.txt | awk '{ print $1}'

HTH,
Jeff

Re: wc

Helen French — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:08:51 GMT

Try this:

# wc -l vg00.map |awk '{print$1}'

Re: wc

PIYUSH D. PATEL — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:09:20 GMT

wc -l f1.txt | awk '{print $1}' > wc -l f2.txt | awk '{print $1}'

Sorry for the second post....

HTH,
Piyush

Re: wc

Dario_1 — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:09:52 GMT

Hi!!

How about:

cat filename.txt | wc -l

Regards,

DR

Re: wc

Helen French — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:10:03 GMT

Oops .. replace vg00.map with your file_name. I just copied the command which I tried =))

Re: wc

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:10:05 GMT

Hi:

You could do:

# X=`wc -l f1.txt|cut -d" " -f1`

# Y=`wc -l f2.txt|cut -d" " -f1`

# if [ "${X}" -gt "${Y}" ]; then
...

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: wc

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:33:15 GMT

Hi (again):

Of course, if you prefer:

# [ `wc -l f1.txt|cut -d" " -f1` -gt `wc -l f2.txt|cut -d" " -f1` ] && echo "f1 has more lines than f2"

Regards!

...JRF...