Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/usr/bin/sh

infile="$1/$2"

if [[ ! -r $infile ]]
then
        #echo "file is not readable: $infile"
        exit 1
fi

awk '
{       

num_cols=NF;  # the number of columns in the current line
temp_cols=temp_cols+num_cols  #add up no. of columns over multiple lines

}' <$infile >tst.txt

./t.sh . inputfile.txt

1 1 1
2 2 2
1 1 1

3
3
3

3
6
9

awk '
{       
num_cols=NF;  # the number of columns in the current line
temp_cols=temp_cols+num_cols  #add up no. of columns over multiple lines
print temp_cols
}' <$infile >tst.txt