[Mailman-Users] Broken Pipe

[Mark Sapiro]

Khalil Abbas wrote:
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>I've created a simple shell script to count members in my 3 lists :
>
> 
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>******
>
>./list_members list1 | wc -l
>./list_members list2 | wc -l
>./list_members list3 | wc -l
>
>******
>
>and I keep getting this error:
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> 
>
>*****
>
>wc: invalid option -- 
>Try `wc --help' for more information.
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "./list_members", line 286, in ?
>    main()
>  File "./list_members", line 264, in main
>    print >> fp, formataddr((safe(name), addr))
>IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
>****


This is a Unix question, not a Mailman question, but the answer is
remove the trailing <CR>s from the lines of your script. They are
confusing the shell into thinking there is another, empty argument at
the end of the line. I.e.

ex /path/to/script
set ff=unix
w
q


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