Get just the integer from wc in bash
bash, wc
Solution
You can use the `cut` command to get just the first word of `wc`'s output (which is the line or word count):
lines=`wc -l $f | cut -f1 -d' '`
words=`wc -w $f | cut -f1 -d' '`
Problem
Is there a way to get the integer that wc returns in bash? Basically I want to write the line numbers and word counts to the screen after the file name. `output: filename linecount wordcount` Here is what I have so far: ``` files=\`ls` for f in $files; do if [ ! -d $f ] #only print out information about files !directories then # some way of getting the wc integers into shell variables and then printing them echo "$f $lines $words" fi done ``` `