[mdlug] How to find file name length?

[Paul]

Raymond McLaughlin <driveray at ameritech.net>, on Wed Sep 26, 2007 [06:51:55 PM] said:
> 
> Also did any one notice that the "echo "$(basename "{}" | wc -c" part
> doesn't work as intended? Observe:
> 
>     echo filename.txt | wc -c
>     13
> 
> wc counts the trailing new line as a character, you need to use "echo -n"
> 
>     echo -n filename.txt | wc -c
>     12
> 
> 
> Ray

	Hi;

	Yeah, I noticed;) its called slop. You cant just shove a
-n into my example without having to do something extra, since Im
just using one echo, the -n wouldn't truncate the right newline,
and you would just get a big blob of output. (the result length
is calculated before echo gets involved.)

Paul
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