count no of words in a line

Satyak · #1 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008

hi
i have a line
"abc,def,ghi,abc,def ,ghi,abc,def,ghi,abc,def ,ghi,abc,def,ghi,abc"
I want to print the no of words, words separated by comma

please help

navojit dutta · #2 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Satyak

hi
i have a line
"abc,def,ghi,abc,def ,ghi,abc,def,ghi,abc,def ,ghi,abc,def,ghi,abc"
I want to print the no of words, words separated by comma

please help

Using awk u can do in this way :

awk -F"," '{print $NF}' Your_Filename

nua7 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008

Use wc -w command to count the number of words. Use sed/awk to insert commas in between them

cfajohnson · #4 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008

Code:

line="abc,def,ghi,abc,def ,ghi,abc,def,ghi,abc,def ,ghi,abc,def,ghi,abc"
oIFS=$IFS
IFS=,
set -f
set -- $line
set +f
IFS=$oIFS
echo $#

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