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Old 06-18-2009
finding the number of occurence of a word in a line
suppose i have this line


abs|der|gt|dftnrk|dtre
i want to count the number of "|" in this line..
how can i do that.
plz helpSmilie
# 2  
Old 06-18-2009
what have you tried?
# 3  
Old 06-18-2009
i tried with grep..
grep -c "|" filename
but it is giving me the count of only the line number in which is pattern is present..i wnt to count the number of occurences of this pattern in a file
# 4  
Old 06-18-2009
Code:
echo "abs|der|gt|dftnrk|dtre" | sed 's/|/
>&/g' |  grep "|" |wc -l


Code:
echo "abs|der|gt|dftnrk|dtre" | awk '{ print gsub("\|","~",$0) }'

Last edited by panyam; 06-18-2009 at 04:20 AM..
# 5  
Old 06-18-2009
You can also use the '-o' flag for grep and then pipe it to wc

Code:
-bash-3.2$ echo "abs|der|gt|dftnrk|dtre" | grep -o "|" | wc -l
4

# 6  
Old 06-18-2009
Code:
 echo "|abs|der|gt|dftnrk|dtre|" | awk -F"|" '{print NF-1}'

# 7  
Old 06-18-2009
MySQL
thanx the last solution is working
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