Cheers everyone!
I have a particularly similar need to count occurrences of words. The detail is that the words are many and are contained in ahother file.
Perl experts, can u pls tell if it's possible to modify this script such that it accepts a file with strings to count in another file?
and example string file would be:
roweiurwoiur
gfdkgjdlfkgjh
wiruyweoiry
i.e. one string per line.
The file to search in contains these strings delimited by non-word-constituent characters, not blanks.
thank u much in advance!
PS I tried this script with my data - it works! although finding strings one by one seems not feasible..
Hi ,
I am using SUN OS Version 5.6.
I have a file that contains records of length 270. when I do 'set nu' in vi editor, I get the count as 86. whereas when I do "wc -l" on the command prompt, it shows the count as only 85. this is very strange. why would the 'wc' show 1 record less. The job... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a pattern like this in a file:
123 4 56 789
234 5 67 789
121 3 56 789
222 4 65 789
321 6 90 100
478 8 40 789
243 7 80 789
How can I count the number of occurences of '789' (4th column) in this set...?
Thanks for all your help!
K (7 Replies)
Hi all
Can anybody suggest me, how to get the count of digits in a word
I tried
WORD=abcd1234
echo $WORD | grep -oE ] | wc -l
4
It works in bash command line, but not in scripts :mad: (12 Replies)
I am a newbie in UNIX shell script and seeking help on this UNIX function. Please give me a hand. Thanks.
I have a large file. Named as 'MyFile'. It was tab-delmited. I am told to write a shell function that counts the number of occurrences of the ord “mysring” in the file 'MyFile'. (1 Reply)
im trying to count the number of occurences of column 2 value(starting from KKK*) of the below file, file.txt
using the code cat file.txt | awk ' BEGIN { print "Category Counts"} {FS=","} {NR > 2} { cats = cats + 1} END { for(c in cats) { print c, "=", cats} } '
but its returning as
... (6 Replies)
Hello world,
Can anybody tell me how to count how many times does a word repeat in a file? There have been many threads on this but they all are heavy loads of Scripting for a starter like me. :D
So, I sat down today and after some hours of reading man pages, I found a simple one-line... (18 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I have 2 files like below
file1
xx
yy
file2
b
yy
b2
xx
c1
yy
xx
yy
Now I want an idea which can count occurences of text from file1 and file2 so outbout would be kind of (9 Replies)
I have some files as shown below
GLL ALM 654-656 654 656
SEM LYG 655-657 655 657
SEM LYG 655-657 655 657
ALM LEG 656-658 656 658
ALM LEG 656-658 656 658
ALM LEG 656-658 656 658
LEG LEG 658-660 658 660
LEG LEG 658-660 658 660 The value of GLL is... (5 Replies)
Hi, I would like to count the number of ALA occurences without having them to be repeated. In the script I have written now it has 40 repetitions of ALA but it has to be 8. ALA is chosen as one of the 20 values it can have when the script asks for the input of AAA, which for this example is chosen... (7 Replies)
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string::shellquote
ShellQuote(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation ShellQuote(3pm)NAME
String::ShellQuote - quote strings for passing through the shell
SYNOPSIS
$string = shell_quote @list;
$string = shell_quote_best_effort @list;
$string = shell_comment_quote $string;
DESCRIPTION
This module contains some functions which are useful for quoting strings which are going to pass through the shell or a shell-like object.
shell_quote [string]...
shell_quote quotes strings so they can be passed through the shell. Each string is quoted so that the shell will pass it along as a
single argument and without further interpretation. If no strings are given an empty string is returned.
If any string can't be safely quoted shell_quote will croak.
shell_quote_best_effort [string]...
This is like shell_quote, excpet if the string can't be safely quoted it does the best it can and returns the result, instead of dying.
shell_comment_quote [string]
shell_comment_quote quotes the string so that it can safely be included in a shell-style comment (the current algorithm is that a sharp
character is placed after any newlines in the string).
This routine might be changed to accept multiple string arguments in the future. I haven't done this yet because I'm not sure if the
strings should be joined with blanks ($") or nothing ($,). Cast your vote today! Be sure to justify your answer.
EXAMPLES
$cmd = 'fuser 2>/dev/null ' . shell_quote @files;
@pids = split ' ', `$cmd`;
print CFG "# Configured by: ",
shell_comment_quote($ENV{LOGNAME}), "
";
BUGS
Only Bourne shell quoting is supported. I'd like to add other shells (particularly cmd.exe), but I'm not familiar with them. It would be
a big help if somebody supplied the details.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
SEE ALSO perl(1).
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 ShellQuote(3pm)