Package: coreutils
Version: 6.10-3
Severity: wishlist
Description:
$ wc -l README
200 README
This is fine for interactive use, but not convenient in shell scripts,
because the outpur cannot be easily handles. Many times only the
integer value is needed:
lines=$(wc -l $file)
if [ $lines > $max ]; then # ERROR!
... do something
fi
SUGGESTION
Of course there are various workarounds, but it would be nice to have
new option
--no-filename
That would suppress the filename from the ooutput listing. Naturally
if multiple files were given:
wc -l --no-filename a b c
The listing would only include the (-l) counts and suppress the names.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
(ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.45-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.7-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 2.0.35-1 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
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