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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Counting string of a variable Post 302249773 by Dip on Wednesday 22nd of October 2008 05:06:03 AM
Old 10-22-2008
Counting string of a variable
Hi,

There is a variable f_name, it store some file names.
Value of f_name=a.sql b.sql c.sql.......
like this.

want to count how many file name the var f_name stores.
Without using loop is there any command to count that.
 

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