Bug in wc???

[Jos Vos]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:45:17PM +0100, Hans M?ller wrote:

> Hello when  i use the wc command i get many spaces. 
> for example:
> [frank at homer dnetc483-linux-x86-elf]$ ls|wc -l
>       6
> [frank at homer dnetc483-linux-x86-elf]$
> but at all scipt saples the output are:
> [xxxx at xxx]$ ls|wc -l
>  x
> [xxxx at xxx]$
> so i cannot use the output in a script. Who can help?

Then use

	ls | wc -l | sed 's/^ *//'

to strip the spaces.

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