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You could pipe it to awk and remove just the one space delimited column you wanted...

wc -l filename |awk $1

That might do it, though I don't have a nix box at my fingertips right now

Take it a step further and get rid of leading blanks or tabs too by assigning the result to an integer variable. Using the korn shell, which supports this:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
integer linecount=`cat filename|wc -l`

Use $linecount to refer to the linecount in your script as:

echo $linecount

Gary

I already have a file with one line. The contents of the line looks like: 4000 filename.txt.

What I need is to get the "4000" from the line.

Hope this explains it further...Thanks agin

Ok, here ya go:

# Cut field 1 where the delimiter is a space.
integer linecount=`cat filename|cut -f1 -d' '`

echo $linecount

Mote that there is a space between the single quotes.

Gary

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