This would break if there are file names with spaces and/or special characters. To avoid that you would need to use properly quoting:
Also, wc -c only counts bytes, so with multibyte characters you would end up with the wrong number. To avoid that use wc -m. For example:
As you can see, they both count the linefeed at the end, you may or may not want that...
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The semicolon after while read FILE is not necessary...
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I've been looking on the internet, and haven't found anything simple enough to use in my code. All I want to do is count how many times "-" occurs in a string of characters (as a package name). It seems it should be very simple, and shouldn't require more than one line to accomplish.
And this is... (2 Replies)
I want to sort lines by how many times a string occurs in each line (the most times first).
I know how to do this in two passes (add a count field in the first pass then sort on it in the second pass).
However, can it be done more optimally with a single AWK command? My AWK has improved... (11 Replies)
Hi,
I need help regarding counting specific word or character per line and validate it against a specific number i.e 10. And if number of character equals the specific number then that line will be part of the output.
Specific number = 6
Specific word or char = ||
Sample data:... (1 Reply)
Please check the attachment for the example.
Purpose: count how many "|" character in one line and also display the line number.
expect result:
Line 1 : there are 473 "|" characters
Line 2 : there are 473 "|" characters
I have tried to use awk to count it, it's ok when the statistic... (8 Replies)
I'm looking for what I hope might be a one liner along these lines:
sed '/a line with more than 3 pipes in it/d'
I know how to get the pipe count in a string and store it in a variable, but I'm greedy enough to hope that it's possible via regex in the /.../d context. Am I asking too much? ... (5 Replies)
Suppose i have multiple line like below in a file.
ASDFAFAGAHAHAHA
AGAHAHAJGAFAGAH
AHAHAKAHAHAHAKA
I need a bash script to count a character and also Also count the number of character present in each line .
suppose for line 1: A=x, S=y, D=x and so on and total character=15. where x y and z is... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file with more than 1000 lines. Most of the lines have 16 characters. I want to find out lines that have less than 14 characters (usually 12 or 13).
wc -l gives me the line count and wc -c gives me the total characters in a file. I could not get the total characters for each line.... (1 Reply)
I will appreciate if you help me here in this script in Solaris Enviroment.
Scenario:
i have 2 files :
1) /tmp/TRANSACTIONS_DAILY_20180730.txt:
201807300000000004
201807300000000005
201807300000000006
201807300000000007
201807300000000008
2)... (10 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
colorprint
COLORS(3) libbash colors Library Manual COLORS(3)NAME
colors -- libbash library for setting tty colors.
SYNOPSIS
colorSet <color>
colorReset
colorPrint [<indent>] <color> <text>
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> <text>
DESCRIPTION
General
colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty.
The function list:
colorSet Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR
colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal
colorPrint Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline)
colorPrintN The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added
Detailed interface description follows.
Available colors:
Green
Red
Yellow
White
The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red).
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
colorSet <color>
Sets the current printing color to color.
colorReset
Resets current tty color back to normal.
colorPrint [<indent>] <color>
Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline).
Parameters:
<indent>
The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position.
<color>
The color to use.
<color>
The text to print.
colorPrintN [<indent>] <color>
The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added.
EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline:
Using colorSet:
$ colorSet green
$ echo 'Hello World'
$ colorReset
Using colorPrint:
$ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo
Using colorPrintN:
$ colorPrintN 'Hello World'
AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com>
Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net>
SEE ALSO ldbash(1), libbash(1)Linux Epoch Linux