From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Sun May 21 17:01:28 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29278 invoked from network); 22 May 2000 00:01:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 May 2000 00:01:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 May 2000 00:01:27 -0000 Received: from calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA05836 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 20:01:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200005220001.UAA05836@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Oops... Re: [lojban] [LONG] UNIX shell script for word lookup In-Reply-To: Message from Robin Lee Powell of "Sun, 21 May 2000 19:24:29 EDT." <200005212324.TAA04851@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 20:01:14 -0400 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell This: >num=`cat $TEMP | wc -l` >if [ $num -gt 10 ] >then > less $TEMP >else > cat $TEMP >fi >rm $TEMP should look like this: num=`cat $TEMP | wc -l` eval `stty | grep rows | tr -d ' '` if [ $num -gt `/usr/bin/expr $rows - 5` ] then less $TEMP else cat $TEMP fi rm $TEMP rm $TEMP.2 - ----------------- BTW, less is just like more, except almost infinitely better, hence the expression, "less is more than more". If you don't have it, I very strongly recommend you fix that. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. ... stripped of our uniqueness as human beings by Darwin, exposed to our own inadequacies by Freud, ... Power -- "the ability to bring about our desires" -- is all that we have left. --- Michael Korda, _Power!_