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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to count number of results found? Post 302786531 by demmel on Wednesday 27th of March 2013 07:58:41 PM
Old 03-27-2013
I actually prefer counting the words even if its between other words, so RudiC seems the best option, anyways all the replies helped me a lot, so thanks to all!

---------- Post updated at 06:49 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:44 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
Using gary_w's files, would this satisfy your needs:
Code:
$ grep -of x1.dat x2.dat| sort |uniq -c
      3 word1
      5 word2
      8 word3

---------- Post updated at 12:50 ---------- Previous update was at 12:44 ----------


That wouldn't help. Remove the space in grep's "$i " parameter...
Unfortunately the grep -o is not installed in my server, and I cant do anything about it.

grep: illegal option -- o

Do you know if its possible to do something similar?

---------- Post updated at 08:58 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:49 PM ----------

I got the result expected by using the following:

Code:
for i in $(cat x1.dat); do echo "$i ";tr -s ' ' '\n' < x2.dat| grep -c "$i";done

However, the result is coming up like this:

word1
3
word2
5
word3
8

But I expected to be like this:

3 word1
5 word2
8 word3

Can anyone help further?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gaelic

GAELIC(5)						     Linux Programmers Manual							 GAELIC(5)

NAME

       gaelic - a list of Scots Gaelic words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/gaelic is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       /etc/dictionaries-common/words  is  a  symbolic	link  to  a  /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to
       /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and is the name by which other software	should	refer  to  the	system	word  list.   See  select-default-
       wordlist(8) for more information.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
       and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.	Such lists should be coded using  the  ISO
       8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The  system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does not
       exist.

AUTHOR

       Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@computer.org>

Linux								   20 July 2002 							 GAELIC(5)
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