B20 quote(') eval

[Richard Schulte]

I'm having problems with a command to place the number of lines in a
file into an integer variable in Bash.  The command
       declare -i count=`wc -l address.tab | awk --source="{print \$1}"`

gives me the error

"C:/bin/bash.exe": declare: 6558 address.tab: syntax error in expression
(error token is "address.tab")

which is the same error you would get if you enter the command

    declare -i count=`wc -l address.tab`

it appears the pipe( | ) in the quoted command is being ignored.  Is
this normal behavior?

richard
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 Richard Schulte           "Vanity of vanities!  All is vanity"
rschulte@geocities.com               Ecclesiastes 1:2

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