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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting scripting - write a script that will count the number of times a particular word Post 302328538 by rakesh_pagadala on Wednesday 24th of June 2009 01:36:30 PM
Old 06-24-2009
Even i am very new to scripting so i am not very sure of some advance regular expressions. So i am giving the basic shell script
Code:
 
count=0
for i in  $(cat location of file)
do
if [ $i == name ]; #name which you want to find from the given file
then
count=`expr $count + 1`
fi
done
echo $count

 

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time(1T)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							  time(1T)

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NAME
time - Time the execution of a script SYNOPSIS
time script ?count? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
This command will call the Tcl interpreter count times to evaluate script (or once if count isn't specified). It will then return a string of the form 503 microseconds per iteration which indicates the average amount of time required per iteration, in microseconds. Time is measured in elapsed time, not CPU time. EXAMPLE
Estimate how long it takes for a simple Tcl for loop to count to a thousand: time { for {set i 0} {$i<1000} {incr i} { # empty body } } SEE ALSO
clock(1T) KEYWORDS
script, time ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl time(1T)
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