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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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