for some reason word count always counts one extra character.
for example,
echo 11 | wc -c
counts 3 characters instead of 2
anyone know how to get the exact number of characters?
There is also the newline character which you dont see.
Hi,
I am trying to execute the following command from a batch script, but no matter how many escape characters I put in it doesn't execute properly. It works fine from the command line with quotes around the -exec part.
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/sudo /usr/atria/bin/cleartool setview -exec... (0 Replies)
Hello,
if i have file like this:
010000890306932455804 05306977653873 0520080417010520ISMS SMT ZZZZZZZZZZZZZOC30693599000 30971360000 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ202011302942311 010000890306946317387 05306977313623 0520080417010520ISMS SMT... (6 Replies)
Hi,
Could any one please let me know what is the maximum number of characters
that will fit into a single line of a flat file on a unix.
Thanks. (1 Reply)
Hi there, I have some user input in a variable called $VAR, and i need to ensure that the string is 5 or less characters .... does anybody know how i can count the characters in the variables ?
any help would be great, cheers (2 Replies)
Hi,
I would like to take the first column of a bunch of lines and take only the 6th through 15th characters. The first column are not regular.
gbAY277147.1Ptv3.T1469 CTTGAACAT
gbAY277149.1Ptro3.T1469 CTTGAACAT
gbAY287891.1Hs3.T1469 CTTGAACATTTGC
into
7147.1Ptv3 CTTGAACAT... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I'm new to using AWK and would be grateful for some basic advice to get me started.
I have a file consisting of 10 fields. Initially I wish to calculate the number of . , ~ and ^ characters in the 9th field ($9) of each line. This particular string also contains alphabetical... (6 Replies)
Hi i have data like
abchd 124 ldskc aattggcc
each separated by tab space i want to count number of characters in 4th column and print it in new column with tabspace for every line can anyone help me how to do it.
Thanks. (3 Replies)
Hello:
I have a large file which contains lines like the following:
1/t123ab, &Xx:1:1234:12345:123456@ABCDEFG... at -$100.00%
/t is a tab, spaces are as indicated
the string "&Xx:1:1234:12345:123456$ABCDEFG..." has a slightly variable number of numbers and letters, but it always starts... (9 Replies)
I want count number of characters / find the length of the 'wc -l' output
This is the command
bash-3.2$ gzcat /home/sid/file1.dat |wc -l
830752
So final out I want is 6 i.e lenght of 830752
I tried with awk
bash-3.2$ gzcat /home/sid/file1.dat |wc -l | awk '{print length ($0)... (3 Replies)
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wc
WC(1) User Commands WC(1)NAME
wc - print newline, word, and byte counts for each file
SYNOPSIS
wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
wc [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
DESCRIPTION
Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if more than one FILE is specified. A word is a non-zero-length
sequence of characters delimited by white space.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
The options below may be used to select which counts are printed, always in the following order: newline, word, character, byte, maximum
line length.
-c, --bytes
print the byte counts
-m, --chars
print the character counts
-l, --lines
print the newline counts
--files0-from=F
read input from the files specified by NUL-terminated names in file F; If F is - then read names from standard input
-L, --max-line-length
print the maximum display width
-w, --words
print the word counts
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report wc translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/wc>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) wc invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 WC(1)