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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers To count total of specific character in a file and save its value to a variable Post 302942901 by Don Cragun on Sunday 3rd of May 2015 03:58:08 PM
Old 05-03-2015
If you ever want to look for the number of strings (not just single characters) matching an extended regular expression with zero or more occurrences of the ERE on each line in a file, try:
Code:
awk -v pat="ERE" '{c+=gsub(pat,"")}END{print c}' data.txt

For example, if you wanted to find the number of occurrences of 4 and 6 in data.txt:
Code:
awk -v pat="[46]" '{c+=gsub(pat,"")}END{print c}' data.txt

which, with your sample input file, produces the output:
Code:
6

If you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk.
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STRING(3)						     Library Functions Manual							 STRING(3)

NAME
strcat, strncat, strcmp, strncmp, strcasecmp, strncasecmp, strcpy, strncpy, strlen, index, rindex - string operations SYNOPSIS
#include <strings.h> char *strcat(s, append) char *s, *append; char *strncat(s, append, count) char *s, *append; int count; strcmp(s1, s2) char *s1, *s2; strncmp(s1, s2, count) char *s1, *s2; int count; strcasecmp(s1, s2) char *s1, *s2; strncasecmp(s1, s2, count) char *s1, *s2; int count; char *strcpy(to, from) char *to, *from; char *strncpy(to, from, count) char *to, *from; int count; strlen(s) char *s; char *index(s, c) char *s, c; char *rindex(s, c) char *s, c; DESCRIPTION
These functions operate on null-terminated strings. They do not check for overflow of any receiving string. Strcat appends a copy of string append to the end of string s. Strncat copies at most count characters. Both return a pointer to the null- terminated result. Strcmp compares its arguments and returns an integer greater than, equal to, or less than 0, according as s1 is lexicographically greater than, equal to, or less than s2. Strncmp makes the same comparison but looks at at most count characters. Strcasecmp and strncasecmp are identical in function, but are case insensitive. The returned lexicographic difference reflects a conversion to lower-case. Strcpy copies string from to to, stopping after the null character has been moved. Strncpy copies exactly count characters, appending nulls if from is less than count characters in length; the target may not be null-terminated if the length of from is count or more. Both return to. Strlen returns the number of non-null characters in s. Index (rindex) returns a pointer to the first (last) occurrence of character c in string s or zero if c does not occur in the string. Set- ting c to NULL works. 4th Berkeley Distribution October 22, 1987 STRING(3)
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