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Old 07-16-2012
Count how many times in every file, strings appeared in a directory.
Hello,

I have some files and i want to count how many times a string is appeared in each file.

Lets say :
Code:
#cat fileA
stringA
sdh
stringB
stringA

Code:
#cat fileB
stringB
stringA 
sdb
stringB
stringB

I need the output to be something like:
HTML Code:
fileA: stringA : 2 stringB : 1
fileB: stringA: 1 stringB: 3

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 07-16-2012
This sufficient?
Code:
$ for A in file*; do awk '/string/ {_[$1]++} END{print FILENAME":"; for(a in _){print a, _[a]| "sort"}}' $A; done
fileA:
stringA 2
stringB 1
fileB:
stringA 1
stringB 3

Used GNU awk (gawk). If you are on Solaris, try using nawk.
Last edited by zaxxon; 07-16-2012 at 07:18 AM.. Reason: copy & paste error
# 3  
Old 07-17-2012
Thanks a lot for your response.

Actualy this script prints (if i use it for stringB)
PHP Code:
fileA :
*** 1
fileB:
*** 1
*** 2 
Where *** the first 3 letter of the line which contains the string and 2 means that the line is duplicated.

Thanks!

---------- Post updated 07-17-12 at 03:00 AM ---------- Previous update was 07-16-12 at 05:30 AM ----------

I made that using a combination of two scripts:
Code:
# cat check_one.sh 
#!/bin/bash
echo "$1"
strA=$(cat $1 |grep  stringA |wc -l)
strB=$(cat $1 |grep  stringB |uniq |wc -l) 
echo "stringA: $strA" 
echo "stringB: $strB"

To check all file just execute check_ALL.sh

Code:
cat check_ALL.sh 
#!/bin/bash
for A in file*;do ./check_one.sh $A; done


Thank a lot for the help zaxxon.
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