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Operating Systems Linux counting the number of lines Post 60614 by RTM on Wednesday 19th of January 2005 11:16:08 AM
Old 01-19-2005
You have to change the ending statement to something that is in the file -

Example:
cat myfile
First line
Name line
another line
even more lines
ending line

$ cat myfile |awk /"Name"/,/"even"/ |wc -l
3
So it's going to count the Name line, another line, and the last line - set the output of wc to a variable and minus 1 - but you need to put an ending statement in the awk parameters that is in your file or put something that won't ever be there (in this next example "neverfindthisword" ) and it will count all lines after (including) the Name line

$ cat myfile |awk /"Name"/,/"neverfindthisword"/ |wc -l
4

You might want to post the OS and version - there may be differences in the awk program you use.
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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