Shell Programming and Scripting

tracert results
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tracert results
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tracert results
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10
10
10
11
13
14
10

#!/bin/bash
 
for node in /home/michale/results/results_10h/*
  do 
    if [ -f $node/trace.txt ]
    then
        MISSING PART :)
    else 
        echo " there is no file to analyze! "
  done

while read LINE
do
    I=0
    LINE=""
    until [ "$LINE" = "-----" ]
    do
        (( I++ ))
        read LINE || break
    done
    echo $I
done < $node/trace.txt # > $outputfile # Remove first comment to output to a file

 awk 'NF{c++}/^--/{print --c;c=x}' infile > outfile

 awk '{c++}/^--/{print --c;c=0}'  infile > outfile

$
$ cat -n f4
     1  line 1
     2  line 2
     3
     4  line 3
     5  line 4
     6  ----------
     7  line 1
     8  line 2
     9  line 3
    10  ----------
    11  line 1
    12
    13
    14  line 2
    15  line 3
    16  ----------
    17
    18  line 1
    19  ----------
$
$ perl -lne 'if (/^--/){print $x; $x=0} elsif(/./){$x++}' f4
4
3
3
1
$