-# Copyright (C) 2014 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+# Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
#
# Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
# purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
_GET_LOG_MESSAGES=0
# If log file is not present, the number of occurrences is 0.
if [ -s ${LOG_FILE} ]; then
- # Grep log file for the logger message occurrences.
- _GET_LOG_MESSAGES=$( grep -o ${msg} ${LOG_FILE} | wc -w )
- # Remove whitespaces.
- ${_GET_LOG_MESSAGES##*[! ]}
+ # Grep log file for the logger message occurrences and remove
+ # whitespaces, if any.
+ _GET_LOG_MESSAGES=$( grep -o ${msg} ${LOG_FILE} | wc -w | tr -d " ")
fi
}