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Old 07-17-2008
phemanth24 phemanth24 is offline
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BTW, you could also bypass putting this into a script.


Code:
awk '/(^A)|(^B)/ {num++} END {if(num > 0);printf("%d instances of A,B exist\n", num);}' column

'column' is the file where I have the format you specified.