Additionally, just to highlight :
Opening parenthesis missing. Also there is no need to put those unless you have used $(...) but in that case you dont need `...`
You have not put spaces around the opening and closing square bracket as ygemici suggested. Also, Make sure put spaces around = or == whatever you use.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)