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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ~~Unix command to count a particular word in the whole directory .~~ Post 302501932 by kurumi on Saturday 5th of March 2011 07:10:47 PM
Old 03-05-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by bartus11
What system are you using? Try this:
Code:
awk '{n+=gsub("aaa","")}END{print n}' *

That code is imperfect though (in oposite to Perl oneSmilie), as it will treat words like "aaaaaa" as two "aaa" words. Perl one-liner is not counting those words.
then you iterate each word using for loop. Perl is overhyped when it comes to text/string processing
Code:
awk '{for(o=1;o<=NF;o++) if ( $o == "aaa") c++}END{print c}'  file

similarly, if OP have Ruby ( which most probably not)
Code:
$ ruby -e 'print "aaa aaa tes aaaa".scan(/\baaa\b/).size'

 

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sql::reservedwords::oracle

SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle(3pm)

NAME

       SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle - Reserved SQL words by Oracle

SYNOPSIS

	  if ( SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle->is_reserved( $word ) ) {
	      print "$word is a reserved Oracle word!";
	  }

DESCRIPTION

       Determine if words are reserved by Oracle Database.

METHODS

       is_reserved( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either Oracle7, Oracle8i, Oracle9i or Oracle10g.

       is_reserved_by_oracle7( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Oracle7.

       is_reserved_by_oracle8( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Oracle8i.

       is_reserved_by_oracle9( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Oracle9i.

       is_reserved_by_oracle10( $word )
	   Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by Oracle10g.

       reserved_by( $word )
	   Returns a list with Oracle versions that reserves $word.

       words
	   Returns a list with all reserved words.

EXPORTS

       Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported:

       is_reserved
       is_reserved_by_oracle7
       is_reserved_by_oracle8
       is_reserved_by_oracle9
       is_reserved_by_oracle10
       reserved_by
       words

SEE ALSO

       SQL::ReservedWords

       <http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/>

AUTHOR

       Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org"

COPYRIGHT

       This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.8.8							    2008-03-28					   SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle(3pm)
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