1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi, given a file i need to get the first line and secodn line and count each of the line whether the length of first line and second line is the same i don;t know how to get the length of the line...seems like use 'wc' cannot do it... please advice (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a text file that has 5719 rows when I open it up in a text editor. When I do a wc -l in Unix however, it says that I have 5718 rows. What could be causing this difference? (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi iam trying to do a specified word count on file called text i have a few ideas but don't get the result i want do any one have a idea please help i have this at the moment cat text echo "Please enter the word you are looking for:" read string echo "the word < $string > occurs in... (5 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi All, Please let me know how to get the count of a particular word in a file. Example. I am looking for count of word 'result' in a file abc.xml. Thanks, Shankar (10 Replies)

5. Fedora

could someone explain this please. echo aaaa|wc -c 5 echo aaaa|wc -m 5 But I'd expect the count to be 4 Its SunOS 5.8 Thanks in Advance. (5 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I am trying to write a command that can help me count the number of lines in the /etc/passwd file ending in bash. I have read through other threads but am yet to find one indicating how to locate a specifc word at the end of a line. I know i will need to use the wc command but when i... (8 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Script that lists all words used in one or more files and displays their count (pattern /\W+/ to split the lines of the input file into words can b used).. It should display list in format word:count...gets Filename as an cmd line argument! eg: $perl test doc (where doc is d file we are going to... (4 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need to count the lines of a file stack.html and if the amount lines i want to do something. At this moment, I have if ; then ... This is not working. Any ideas? Thanks! (3 Replies)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, It is very interesting to learn the unix, i just struck with a doubt like i have below content in my file xyz xyz xyz xyz i just want know the word count by using grep -wc 'xyz' <filename>, but it is giving 3 instead of 4.So i understood that it is showing matched line numbers count... (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I am trying to figure out to find word count of each word from my file sample file hi how are you hi are you ok sample out put hi 1 how 1 are 1 you 1 hi 1 are 1 you 1 ok 1 wc -l filename is not helping , i think we will have to split the lines and count and then print and also... (4 Replies)