smells like homework, but it educated me on how to waste a few minutes:
This is of course ksh only, but I'm sure that some of the others out there have other one-liners that could of assistance (awk, perl, whatever...). In fact, you could even boil it down to a one-liner here as well:
What it does is break the input into records and then subtract one from the resulting line count. grep -c wouldn't work for you since it's line-based, and tr is fast enough. HTH...
Greetings,
I need to search and count all the occurences of a word in all the files in a directory.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
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i want to search a word in a file and find the count of occurences even if pattern occures twice in a same line.
for example file has the following content.
yes no no nooo yees
no yes
if I search for "no" it should give count as 4
Pls help.
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I need to search and count the occurrences of a pattern in a file. The catch here is it's a pattern and not a word ( not necessarily delimited by spaces). For eg. if ABCD is the pattern I need to search and count, it can come in all flavors like (ABCD, ABCD), XYZ.ABCD=100, XYZ.ABCD>=500,... (6 Replies)
hi All,
need help. have a file like below
A, error in 123
B, log files are present
A, error in 23444
B, log files are present
A, move to next line
C, matching messages
-- expected output--
A , count =2 , error in *
A , count =1 , move to next line
B , count =2 , log files are present... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I need to search the database log find out the most frequently used tables for a certain period of time.
The search pattern is : the database.table
so, i need to look for ABCD.* in the entire log and then need the top ten tables.
I thought of using awk, search for the pattern ... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a text file the contents are like this
now i want to search patterns Z , Z etc and count the occurrence of such patterns, after Z value can be any random digits, please help me it is urgent...
output like this
Z .............>5
Z ............>8 (9 Replies)
Hi,
Is there a command to do a sensitive/in-sensitive search for a string on a line and print how many times that string appears?
For example, if I have a line of text below:
dog cat rat apple banana dog lion tiger dog
Is there a command to search for dog that will print out 3 as a... (7 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have a file as follows. Here is my story:
For each field, the string in the 5th column needs to be searched in other fields of the same column and counted if the 1st column of the field is different from that of the primary field. BTW, the unique strings of 1st column need to be... (6 Replies)
Input:
|Running the Rsync|Sun Oct 16 22:48:01 BST 2016
|End of the Rsync|Sun Oct 16 22:49:54 BST 2016
|Running the Rsync|Sun Oct 16 22:54:01 BST 2016
|End of the Rsync|Sun Oct 16 22:55:45 BST 2016
|Running the Rsync|Sun Oct 16 23:00:02 BST 2016
|End of the Rsync|Sun Oct 16 23:01:44 BST 2016... (4 Replies)