Vamsi Krishna wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i need to grep a word count from a text file and i want to display the
> count.
> i need all the above in a rake file , i tried it by using
>
> today_count= system("grep -R 'time' oct_10.txt | grep -R 'hi' | wc
> -l")
> puts "today count is :#{today_count}"
>
> but today_count returns 'true' instead of count.
>
>
> plz reply ASAP.
>
>
> Thanks..
> --vamsi.
Vamsi,
I think here you using 'time' is a variable, instead of using that
variable try to append that var by using '<<'
--nan
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