On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Matt Alexander wrote:

> and test if it equals two.  If not, then tell the user to enter new data.
> Also, there's no reason to cat the crap.  ;-)  Just give it as input to wc
> like this:
> wc -w crap

It doesn't even need to save the data to a file; echoing the variable and
piping through wc should be fine.

Then again it is a assignment, so maybe it was a requirement ...

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/