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I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one!

August 23rd, 2007

#!/bin/bash

if [ -f girlproblems.txt ]
then
  FEELINGS=”bad”
  PROBLEMS=`cat myproblems.txt | wc -l`
  if [ $PROBLEMS == "99" ]
  then
    BITCHES=`cat myproblems.txt | grep bitch | wc -l`
    if [ $BITCHES == "0" ]
      then
      echo “a bitch ain’t one!”
    fi
  fi
fi

Too many glasses of scotch will do that to you.

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3 Responses to 'I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one!'

1 tehdely Says:
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:30 am
Useless use of cat.
2 Adam Says:
April 6th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Well, I did spend too little time and too much scotch on this. Of course grep bitch myproblems.txt is a better way of doing it. Old (bad) habits die hard.

However, as far as I can tell, cat is needed for wc, as it outputs the filename as well. Of course, I could be wrong, but wc(1) doesn’t seem to have an option to supress the output of the filename. You could always wc -l myproblems.txt | awk '{print $1}' but it serves the same purpose essentially.
3 aviation insurance Says:
October 20th, 2008 at 11:22 am
aviation insurance…

rave articulating functor pasts.insidiously overshadows …

I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one!

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