skip to main | skip to sidebar

linuxjunk

Friday, July 25, 2008

Count chars

We might have had this one before but I couldn't find it.

cat commafile.txt | tr -dc ',' | wc -c

That could be replaced by any file in the commfile.txt. So, basically count the number of occurrences of the expression ',' in the file and print it out. Why? you ask - cos I gotta.
Posted by Niall Haslam at 2:39 AM
Labels: bash, characters, file-handling

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Blog Archive

  • ►  2011 (2)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  April (1)
  • ►  2010 (33)
    • ►  November (4)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (3)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2009 (66)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (11)
    • ►  October (8)
    • ►  September (8)
    • ►  August (9)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  March (4)
    • ►  February (10)
    • ►  January (3)
  • ▼  2008 (40)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (6)
    • ►  October (4)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ▼  July (2)
      • Count chars
      • Remote SVN access for Sanger Institute
    • ►  June (5)
    • ►  April (10)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2007 (48)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (1)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (14)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  June (7)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (7)

Contributors

  • Niall Haslam
  • new

Links

  • Format Source Code for Blogs
  • GCC compiler errors