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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Counting the number of pipes in line Post 302248413 by nirnay_s on Friday 17th of October 2008 02:33:54 PM
Old 10-17-2008
Question Counting the number of pipes in line
Hi,

I'm using the ksh shell.

The scenario:

I have a couple of directories

/home/fd
/home/fd/prsd
home/fd/stg

now i have number of files in each of these directories.

some of the files are zipped using gzip so their extension is .gz

the content of the files is as follows

D|abc|1324|ba92|adfds||324 -1 1 | | bcd |||||
D|as|cdsa|235|as|gf=12|sdf34|$||||sas|a5#|


Basically I mean each record is in a newline and is delimeted with the pipe.

All the files have the same structure(remember some are zipped)

and there can be anywhere between 40K and 200K records in a file

So if you count the pipes in the record(line) we have 13 pipes in each line(record). All the files will have the 13 pipes.

But i have one file which has 14 pipes instead of 13(means each record in that file will have 14 pipes)

and I need to find this fiel with 14 pipes.........

It may be in either of these directories and may or maynot be zipped...


Please help me out.....


Many Thanks
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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OPTIONS

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