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06-22-2005

jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline

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awk supports arrays.

The

Code:

'{ count=0 } ............. { count++ } END { print count }'

part could write to an array element instead of "print count". Instead of going crazy over this, consider a good book like the O'Reilly book 'sed & awk' If you're in Manhattan, Barnes and Noble has it.

Short answer: in awk you can do what you asked. All in one piece of awk code.