SYSTEM command

[Kenneth Brody]

Jeff Harrison wrote:
[...]
> Or you can use the user command or import ascii.
> Using the user command for example, you could do as
> follows:
> 
> ::user tmp = /usr/local/bin/countm:
> ::tmp="/tmp/file":
> ::tp(8,.0)=tmp:
> ::show "@The count of lines is "<tp:
> 
> Your countm script could look as follows:
> 
> read afile
> wc -l $afile

Better would be:

    while read afile
    do
        wc -l $afile
    done

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