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Re: [PATCH] Document the grep workaround.


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document the grep workaround.
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 10:53:19 +0200
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+The QNX4 implementation fails to count lines with @code{grep -c '$'},
+but works with @code{grep -c '^'}.  Another alternative for counting
+lines is to use @code{wc -l}.

I think the most portable way to count lines is "sed -n '$='".

Paolo



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