RE: =| and newlines

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: "Dallman Ross" <http://www.nomotek.com/~dman>
 > Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:00:37 +0200
 >
 > > Yes, I later discovered that I was incorrect.  The problem turned
 > > out to have
 > > nothing to do with newlines, but rather spaces.
 > >
 > > The problem was this:
 > >
 > > NUMWORDS=`wc -w`
 > 
 > > . . . .
 > 
 > > I fixed this by adding:
 > >
 > > :0w
 > > *NUMWORDS??^^[	 ]*\/[0-9]+
 > > { NUMWORDS=$MATCH }
 > >
 > > before the sed gets executed.
 > 
 > Prolly not relevant here, but you might find it useful in
 > general to know that one can get rid of the leading whitespace
 > with wc by piping through "xargs".
 > 
 > 2:00pm ulysium:~> wc -l < $MAIL
 >          0
 > 2:00pm ulysium:~> wc -l < $MAIL | xargs
 > 0
 > 
 > (But I'm not a fan of extra pipes.)
 > 
 > Also, if you're trying to find lines instead of words,
 > you can use grep -c instead of wc and avoid the problem.
 > 
 > 2:02pm ulysium:~> grep -c . $MAIL
 > 0

Ah, very clever!  Thanks!

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