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Old 09-14-2010
Count words

Hi, does anyone know the command to count words by its length.
I need to Count the number of five letter words that I have in a file with thousand of words.
thanks
# 2  
Old 09-14-2010
Code:
xargs -n1 < file1 | grep -c ^.....$

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Old 09-14-2010
MySQL

thanks
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Old 09-15-2010
Code:
ruby -ne 'BEGIN{$c=0};END{print $c};$_.split.each{|x| $c+=1 if x.length==5}'

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