RE: Passing a value from Unix into 4GL ?

Fernando Ortiz wrote >There's a workaround if the unix command only returns ONE integer value. >As you can see I'm not a shell programmer, but the following script do a line count in the file >given as first parameter and then returns the line count as the exit code. >[ortiz@adela bin]$ cat cuenta >#/bin/bash >a=`wc -l $1` >b=`echo $a | cut -f 1 -d \\ ` >exit $b On Tru64 'wc -l $1 ' returns more than 1 value (filename) `cat $1 | wc -l ` works better for me. Colin Bull c.bull@videonetworks.com sending to informix-list