[GRASS-user] g.mlist newline separator request

[Patton, Eric]

I've noticed that g.mlist doesn't enter a newline after the last entry in a list, which used to be the case about a month ago:

~/coderepo >g.mlist pattern=Minas_Basin*
Minas_Basin_Jan16_2007_50m
Minas_Basin_Jan16_2007_50m_med3
Minas_Basin_Jan16_2007_50m_med3_shade
Minas_Basin_Jan16_2007_50m_med3_shade_comb
Minas_Basin_Jan16_2007_50m_shade
Minas_Basin_Jan16_2007_50m_shade_comb~/coderepo >

Consequently, any script that tries to get a count from g.mlist by piping to wc will get an incorrect count that will be off by one:


g.mlist pattern=Minas_Basin_Jan16_2007_50m | wc -l
0 (Should be 1)

g.mlist pattern=Minas_Basin* | wc -l
5 (Should be 6)

Would it be possible to get the final newline back? I have scripts that are broken now because a for loop never gets started when a check is done against the number of rasters matched:

MATCHES=`g.mlist pattern=${PATTERN} | wc -l`

# Abort if no matches are found.
if [ "$MATCHES" -eq 0 ] ; then
 	echo "$SCRIPT: No rasters matched the search pattern!" 
 	exit 1
fi


~ Eric.