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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!bcc.ac.uk!link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk!ubacw00
  2. From: ubacw00@ucl.ac.uk (Mick Farmer)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
  4. Subject: Re: How to do $#a in Bourne shell?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep10.152142.4976@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 10 Sep 92 15:21:42 GMT
  7. References: <peter.716085132@merlin>
  8. Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium
  9. Lines: 11
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  11. Try something like:
  12.  
  13.     echo $a | wc -w
  14.  
  15. To capture the value:
  16.  
  17.     b=`echo $a | wc -w`
  18.  
  19. Regards,
  20.  
  21. Mick
  22.