1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I trying to sort information in a file by making count for every object. For example: A B A D A B C i would like to sort out count for each object (A's, B's and etc) but in actual case i dont know the object but i know the position ofthe object. do i need to use array as well? Any... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to grep multiple string occurance in input file using single grep command? I have below input file with many IDP, RRBE messages. Out put should have count of each messages. I have used below command but it is not working grep -cH "(sent IDP Request)(Recv RRBCSM)" *.txt ... (5 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi I am having a 'grep' headache Here is the contents of my file: (PBZ,CP,(((ME,PBZ,BtM),ON),((ME,((PBZ,DG),(CW9,PG11))),CW9,TS2,RT1))) I would like to count out how many times 'PBZ' occurs and then place that number in the line above 3... (8 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hey all, I'm looking for a command that will search a directory (and all subdirectories) and give me a file count for the number of files that contain specific characters within its filename. e.g. I want to find the number of files that contain "-a.jpg" in their name. All the searching I've... (6 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all, I like to know how to get the count of each character in a given word. Using the commands i can easily get the output. How do it without using the commands ( in shell programming or any programming) if you give outline of the program ( pseudo code ) i used the following commands ... (3 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

to delete the duplicate characters in a file I used this code cat file.txt|tr -s "" tell the other ways using sed command to count of duplicate characters thanks:) (0 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everyone, and thanks after all I'm a biologist and i have to extract information from one text. The text is something like this 1023 A A 56 0 cc...,,,,..gg..Cc.c,,c..CC..,, 1024 T T 86 0 ..,,,..aaAA..,,aAA,,a,,A,,a 1025 G G 125 0 ... (5 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All! I would like to solve a problem but I have no clue of how do it!I will be grateful if someone could help me! I have a file like this: > genes | transcript ...sequence.... >ENSMUSG00000006638|ENSMUST00000006814 GGGAAATGGAATACCCCTACACAACCAAGATGCTGAGTTCCTCCCTGAGCCCGCAAAACG... (2 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want count number of characters / find the length of the 'wc -l' output This is the command bash-3.2$ gzcat /home/sid/file1.dat |wc -l 830752 So final out I want is 6 i.e lenght of 830752 I tried with awk bash-3.2$ gzcat /home/sid/file1.dat |wc -l | awk '{print length ($0)... (3 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Need to count consecutive characters in a string and give the output as below i/p=aaaabbcaa o/p=a4b2c1a2 (10 Replies)