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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help on counting number of bytes in a field Post 302246690 by tayyabq8 on Tuesday 14th of October 2008 06:35:31 AM
Old 10-14-2008
It uses associative arrays, to understand how associative arrays work in awk, see this post https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...wk-arrays.html

About running this awk script, you have to use it in the same way as he coded, its as per your requirements, if you don't know how to run it at command line, then put it in some shell-script and run that file. Something like this:
Code:
#! /bin/ksh
awk '{ arr[length($1)]++; arr[length($2)]++; }
       END {print "8 - 9 bytes", arr[8]+arr[9], " 10 bytes ", arr[10] } ' file

Save this shell-script as "test" then do the following:
Code:
chmod +x test
./test

 

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