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# 1  
Old 03-11-2008
HELP! using cut/awk

how would i write a shell script to show the number of lines in which int variable appears in a c++ program.

how would i do this using cut or awk methods is it possbile and having a output similar to this

x, number of apperances =
y, number of apperances =
# 2  
Old 03-11-2008
A non-awk one

Code:
f_count() {
WHAT=$1
FILE=$2
echo "$WHAT, number of apperances = `grep -c "\<$WHAT\>" $FILE`"
}

f_count x myc.cpp
f_count y myc.cpp

Code:
$ sh occ.sh
x, number of apperances = 2
y, number of apperances = 3

//Jadu
# 3  
Old 03-11-2008
Code:
$ awk '/\<x\>/ {++c} END {print c}' myc.cpp
2

$ awk '/\<y\>/ {++c} END {print c}' myc.cpp
3

//Jadu
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