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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Count strings on single line? Post 302197927 by summer_cherry on Thursday 22nd of May 2008 01:41:00 AM
Old 05-22-2008
Hi,

Hope below code can help you. Why i use sed is to replace hello with '|'. In other words i do not know how to put a word such as 'hello' as the FS for AWK, if can do that, the code can be much easier.

BTW, pls anyone know how to consider a word as well as several words as the FS for AWK, please kindly share it here.

Thanks in advanced.

Code:
cat file | sed 's/hello/|/g' |
awk 'BEGIN{FS="|"}
{
n=n+NF-1
}
END{
print n
}'

 

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gaelic

GAELIC(5)						     Linux Programmers Manual							 GAELIC(5)

NAME

       gaelic - a list of Scots Gaelic words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/gaelic is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       /etc/dictionaries-common/words  is  a  symbolic	link  to  a  /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to
       /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and is the name by which other software	should	refer  to  the	system	word  list.   See  select-default-
       wordlist(8) for more information.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
       and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.	Such lists should be coded using  the  ISO
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SEE ALSO

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HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The  system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does not
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