Hello,
I am writing a shell script and I need to find a way to
count the number of whitespaces in a string.
Eg:
NAME="Bob Hope"
I am looking for a way to count the number of whitespaces in this string. So a command that would take this string and return 1.
Or take
"First Middle Last"... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a flat file of 1000 rows. I want to check the length of the 5th column. The one having the longest length , I want to set it as DEFINED PARAMETER.
So later I can check others with that particular number only.
Any ideas ?? (2 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to write a shell script, but i encountered a problem I cant solve alone so I hope you guys can help me. The situation is:
I have a script file and a config file, in my config file I set some Variables:
for example:
destination=(xp, xq, xt)
username=testor... (3 Replies)
hi all,
i'm trying to pass a count of files to a variable thru these set of codes:
sh_count=$(ls -1 fnd_upload_LV*.* |wc -l)
problem is if no files matches that, it will give an error "ls: fnd_upload_LV*.*: No such file or directory".
how do i avoid having the shell script show that... (2 Replies)
I tried this script to get a count of the occurrence of a string in files.
I have multiple files in one directory I will use this on.
All the filenames begin "invALL.06" The script works, except it counts twice for every one instance of 'Invoice Total'.
If there are 5 occurences of 'Invoice... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I am having problems counting commas (,) from a variable in shell scripting..
the variable contains similiar to: ID@NAME@DESCRIPTION,ID@NAME@DESCRIPTION, .....
It can go on and on..
So i need to count the number of sets i.e.( ID@NAME@DESCRIPTION is one set) and process the... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
I hv several files which have hundreds of lines each for example>XYZ.abc01
NNNTCGGTNNNNNCCACACACMYACACACCCACACCCACSCARCAC
I'd like to exculde the first line beginning with ">" and then for the rest of the lines get a count for each string element. So for the above example I would like... (8 Replies)
Hello,
I have a string like this 0:1:2:0:2:2:4:0:0:0:-200:500......
what i want is to break down how many different characters are there and their count. For example for above string it should display
0 - 5 times
1 - 1 times
2 - 3 times
4 - 1 times
.
.
.
I am stuck in writing... (8 Replies)
I have a list of URLs and I want to be able to count the number of instances of addresses ending in a certain TLD and output and sort it like so.
5 bdcc.com
48 zrtzr.com
49 rvo.com
Input is as so
ync.org
sduzj.edu
sduzj.edu
sduzj.edu
sduzj.edu
sduzj.edu
sduzj.edu
sduzj.edu... (1 Reply)
I have been working on this for a little while and have been unable to come to a solution. Any help would be appreciated. I am working on a UNIX workstation and have a 30-40 meg text file that I am working with. In my real file there is hundreds of Jobs. Example of input file;
misc logging data... (1 Reply)