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Old 01-05-2009
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Count number of digits in a word
Hi all

Can anybody suggest me, how to get the count of digits in a word

I tried

Code:
WORD=abcd1234
echo $WORD | grep -oE [[:digit:]] | wc -l
4
It works in bash command line, but not in scripts