Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

print number of words in each line

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting print number of words in each line
# 1  
Old 05-16-2011
Bug print number of words in each line
Hi,

Please suggest a way to print number of words in the end of each line.

<input file>

Code:
 
red aunt house
blue sky
bat and ball game

<output file>

Code:
 
red aunt house 3
blue sky 2
bat and ball game 4

Thanks!
# 2  
Old 05-16-2011
Code:
awk '{ print $0, NF }' infile

# 3  
Old 05-16-2011
This sure looks like homework....

One way:
Code:
while read record
do
    words=$( echo "$record" | wc -c)
    echo "$records $words"
done < inputfile

Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Number of words in line, while loop, search and grep

Hello, What I wish to attain is: - to read fileA line by line - search entire line as string in fileB - when found, grep the next line in fileB - then merge "searched line" and "found line" in a new file, fileC Here is my fileA: T S Eliot J L Borges L Aragon L L Aragon T S Eliot 4 0... (17 Replies)
Discussion started by: baris35
17 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk to find number in a field then print the line and the number

Hi I want to use awk to match where field 3 contains a number within string - then print the line and just the number as a new field. The source file is pipe delimited and looks something like 1|net|ABC Letr1|1530||| 1|net|EXP_1040 ABC|1121||| 1|net|EXP_TG1224|1122||| 1|net|R_North|1123|||... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Mudshark
5 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Search words in a line and print next 15 lines.

I have a text file ( basically a log file) and i have 2 words (alpha, beta), Now i want to search these two words in one line and then print next 15 lines in a temp file. there would be many lines with alpha and beta But I need only last occurrence with "alpha" and "beta" and next 15 lines. ... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kashif.live
4 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

sed script - print the line number along with the line

Hi, I want to print the line number with the pattern of the line on a same line using multi-patterns in sed. But i don't know how to do it. For example, I have a file abc def ghi I want to print 1 abc 2 def 3 ghi I know how to write it one line code, but i don't know how to put... (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: ntpntp
11 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Count and print all repeating words in a line

Gurus, I have a file containing lines like this : Now, number of words in each line varies. My need is, if a word repeats in a line get it printed. Also total number of repeats. So, the output would be : Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks & Regards (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: AshwaniSharma09
5 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to print the words in the same line with space or to the predefined line?

HI, cat test abc echo "def" >> test output is cat test abc def the needed output is cat test abc def and so on (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: jobycxa
5 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Print selection of line based on line number

Hi Unix gurus Basically i am searching for the pattern and getting the line numbers of the grepped pattern. I am trying to print the series of lines from 7 lines before the grepped line number to the grepped line number. I am trying to use the following code. but it is not working. cat... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mohanm
3 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Print two matched words from the same line

Hi experts I need to pick 2 matched words from the same line..... I have given below an example file eg: O14757 hsa04110 hsa04115 2 P38398 hsa04120 1 O15111 hsa04010 hsa04210 hsa04920 hsa04620 hsa04660 hsa04662 hsa05200 hsa05212 hsa05221 hsa05220 hsa05215 hsa05222 hsa05120 13 O14920... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: binnybio
4 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

print only last two words of a line

can u help me out to print last two words of each sentence of a file. for example. contents of input file: i love songs my favourite songs sent songs all kind good buddy Ouput file should contain: love songs favourite songs sent all kind good buddy (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: pradeepreddy
5 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

how to get line number of different words if exists in same line

I have some txt files. I have to create another text file which contains the portion starting from the format "Date Sex Address" to the end of the file. While using grep -n on Date it also gives me the previous line containg Date. and also Date may be DATE in some files. My file is like this... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: Amiya Rath
10 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question