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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find number of columns in a file Post 302197149 by era on Tuesday 20th of May 2008 08:53:15 AM
Old 05-20-2008
Also the first quoting character displays as a backtick in your last message. Those should be regular single quotes (ASCII 39) on both sides.

Incidentally, this is a Useless Use of Cat. Awk is perfectly capable of reading the file itself.

Code:
awk '{ print NF }' file

Try copy/paste that if you're not sure how to type the correct quotes.
 

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pfscut(1)						      General Commands Manual							 pfscut(1)

NAME
pfscut - Extract a rectangle out of a frame in PFS stream SYNOPSIS
pfscut [--left <columns>] [--right <columns>] [--top <rows>] [--bottom <rows>] [--width <new_width>] [--height <new_height>] [--help] [x_ul y_ul x_br y_br] DESCRIPTION
Extract a rectangle out of each frame in PFS stream. You can either specify x and y coordinates of upper left and lower right corner (the coordinates start with 0 and rise in the left-to-right and up-to-botton directions) or give a combination of the options listed below. OPTIONS
--left <columns>, -l <columns> Number of columns to be cut out from the left edge of an image. --right <columns>, -r <columns> Number of columns to be cut out from the right edge of an image. --top <rows>, -t <rows> Number of rows to be cut out from the top edge of an image. --bottom <rows>, -b <rows> Number of rows to be cut out from the bottom edge of an image. --width <new_width>, -W <new_width> Width of an output image. Note that --width can be mixed with either --left or --right option. --height <new_height>, -H <new_height> Height of an output image. Note that --height can be mixed with either --top or --bottom option. --help, -h Print a list of commandline options. EXAMPLES
pfsin image.hdr | pfscut --left 20 --top 5 | pfsout out.hdr Cut out 20 columns from the left and 5 rows from the top edge of image.hdr and save frame as out.hdr. pfsin image.hdr | pfscut --left 20 --width 400 | pfsout out.hdr Cut out 20 columns from the left edge of image.hdr, and create output image 400 pixels in width. pfsin image.hdr | pfscut 0 0 511 511 | pfsout out.hdr Cut left-upper part of the image of the size 512x512 (note that coordinates start with 0 and 512 is the last row/column that is included in the resulting image). SEE ALSO pfsin(1) pfsout(1) BUGS
Please report bugs and comments to Dorota Zdrojewska <dzdrojewska@wi.ps.pl>. pfscut(1)
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