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# 1  
Old 06-15-2010
Count tab in a line
Hi,

How to count number of tabs in a line
# 2  
Old 06-15-2010
Try this:
Code:
echo "$line" | awk '{print gsub(/\t/,"")}'

or
Code:
awk '{print gsub(/\t/,"")}' infile

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-15-2010 at 04:26 AM..
# 3  
Old 06-15-2010
Code:
# cat infile
sasasa  dwedwdw dewedwed        dwdqwd  ddwed   ddfwe

Code:
# od -c infile | grep -o "\t" | wc -l
6

# 4  
Old 06-15-2010
Hi ygemici, don't you mean:
Code:
grep -o "\t" infile | wc -l

# 5  
Old 06-15-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Hi ygemici, don't you mean:
Code:
grep -o "\t" infile | wc -l

Actually I dont mean this..because we dont look the invisible chars in normal text with grep..

Code:
sed 's/\t/--TABHERE--/g' infile
sasasa--TABHERE--dwedwdw--TABHERE--dewedwed--TABHERE--dwdqwd--TABHERE--ddwed--TABHERE--ddfwe--TABHERE--

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