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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Script to find the number of tab delimiters in a line Post 302241362 by jim mcnamara on Monday 29th of September 2008 07:13:50 AM
Old 09-29-2008
Few people here are good with csh, me included. There are good reasons to avoid it.
However, you can get the answer with awk. Try gawk or nawk if you have them.
Code:
head -1 file | awk -F'*' '{print $NF -1 }'

* where * -- the tab key

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 09-29-2008 at 11:36 AM.. Reason: gotgot to make FS == a tab
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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