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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting count and number instances of a character in sed or awk Post 302574979 by maouinin on Saturday 19th of November 2011 11:23:33 AM
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count and number instances of a character in sed or awk
I currently use LaTeX together with a sed script to set cloze test papers for my students. I currently pepend and equals sign to the front of the words I want to leave out in the finished test, =perpendicular, for example. I am able to number the blanks using a variable in LaTeX. I would like to switch from using LatTeX to using groff typesetting.

My question is this: can I label or replace the equals signs with a running count with sed or awk, or even troff/groff for that matter? If so, how might I do it?

Thanks
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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       mom  ("my own macros", "my other macros", "maximum overdrive macros", ...) is a macro set for groff, designed primarily to format documents
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