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Forum: UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 10-13-2004

Counting occurences of specific charachter in a file

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try cat filename | tr -d '\n' | tr -s '"'...

try

cat filename | tr -d '\n' | tr -s '"' '\n' | wc -l

awk might be better -

awk -v ch='"' '
BEGIN {cnt=0 }
{cnt += gsub(ch,"Z") }
END {print cnt}...

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