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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers counting occurrence of characters in a string Post 302557125 by exit86 on Tuesday 20th of September 2011 12:14:42 PM
Old 09-20-2011
Thanks a lot Corona688,

I modified the script you posted to fit my need and having a strange behavior.
The script below works fine on cygwin (on my windows) but when I run it on AIX box the results are different.

Code:
STR="0:0:1:2:0:1:0:0:2:2:1:1:0"
 echo "$STR" | awk 'BEGIN { FS="" }
        { for(N=1;N<=NF;N++) if ($N!=":")  A[$N]++ fi}
        END { for(K in A)  print K, A[K] }'

Cygwin output:
Code:
0 6
1 4
2 3

AIX output:
Code:
0:0:1:2:0:1:0:0:2:2:1:1:0 1

Any ideas? sorry for my ignorance, I am a java developer stuck in doing UNIX scripting Smilie
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RECINS(1)							   User Commands							 RECINS(1)

NAME
recins - insert records in a recfile SYNOPSIS
recins [OPTION]... [t TYPE] [-n NUM | -e EXPR | -q STR | -m NUM] [(-f STR -v STR]|[-R RECDATA)]... [FILE] DESCRIPTION
Insert new records in a rec database. -f, --field=STR field name; should be followed by a -v. -v, --value=STR field value; should be preceded by an -f. -r, --record=STR record that will be inserted in the file. --force insert the record even if it is violating record restrictions. --no-external don't use external descriptors. --no-auto don't insert auto generated fields. --verbose give a detailed report if the integrity check fails. -s, --password=STR encrypt confidential fields with the given password. --help print a help message and exit. --version show version and exit. Record selection options: -i, --case-insensitive make strings case-insensitive in selection expressions. -t, --type=TYPE operate on records of the specified type only. -e, --expression=EXPR selection expression. -q, --quick=STR select records with fields containing a string. -n, --number=NUM,... select specific records by position, with ranges. -R, --random=NUM select a given number of random records. If no FILE is specified then the command acts like a filter, getting the data from standard input and writing the result to standard out- put. AUTHOR
Written by Jose E. Marchesi. REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to: bug-recutils@gnu.org GNU recutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010, 2011, 2012 Jose E. Marchesi. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for recins is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and recins programs are properly installed at your site, the command info recins should give you access to the complete manual. recins 1.4.93 January 2012 RECINS(1)
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