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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting counting characters Post 302434402 by Lucky Ali on Friday 2nd of July 2010 11:12:04 AM
Old 07-02-2010
Thanks.

When I did it I got the following error message

Code:
awk: syntax error at source line 1
 context is
     >>> /^>/{sub(">","");p=$0;next}{a[p]}+= <<< 
    extra }
awk: bailing out at source line 1

Please Let me know what might have occurred.

LA

---------- Post updated at 11:12 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:01 AM ----------

Thanks Image vgersh99,

It didn't give any error message but I think its not giving me what I needed.

Code:
awk '/^>/ {if(n) print n,l;n=substr($0,2);next} {l+=length}END{print n,l}' sample1.txt 
AB_1 208
AB_2 544
AB_3 709

Obviously AB_3 have less number of sequences than AB_2
 

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