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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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DICTFMT_INDEX2WORD(1)						Linux User's Manaul					     DICTFMT_INDEX2WORD(1)

NAME
dictfmt_index2word - Creates a .word index file from a DICTD database .index file SYNOPSIS
dictfmt_index2word [OPTIONS] [index_file] DESCRIPTION
dictfmt_index2word creates a word index file on stdout for the index file given on stdin or the command line. A word index file indexes each subword from the multi-word headwords of the .index file, to the underlying .dict file. A word index file is usually named <base- name>.word, but this is not mandatory as long as the proper name is used in the dictd configuration file. OPTIONS
--help displays a usage message and exits --locale locale use locale for sorting the .word file. If this option is omitted, the default locale "C" is used. index_file the .index file to be converted. AUTHOR
dictfmt_index2word was written by Aleksey Cheusov <vle@gmx.net>. This manual page was written by Robert D. Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>. SEE ALSO
dictd(8), dictfmt(1), dictfmt_index2suffix(1) LINUX
January 23, 2003 DICTFMT_INDEX2WORD(1)
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