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Subject: Re: how to grep one word from a line
From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <scoile@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:27:48 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Dawid Michalczyk wrote:
[...]
> To be more specific, I'm writing a script which counts bitmap files.
> Here is an excerpt:
>
> ###### counting png
>
> find . -name "*.png" > png ;
> wc -l png > png2 # this generates the 2 words on one line, ex: "232
> png"
> read PNG < png2 # this puts "232 png" in PNG, but I only want the
> integers
Try:
PNG=`find . -name '*.png' | awk '{ next }; END { print NR }'`
or:
PNG=`find . -name '*.png' | wc -l | awk '{ print $1 }'`
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