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# 1  
Old 06-05-2012
How to get count of replacements done by sed?

Hi ,
How can i get count of replacements done by sed in a file.
I know grep -c is a method.
But say if sed had made 10 replacement in a file, can i get number 10 some how?
# 2  
Old 06-05-2012
You might be interested in this post.

Also, an alternative is to use perl:
Code:
$ echo "helloworld" | perl -ne 'print s/l/x/g'
3

# 3  
Old 06-05-2012
maybe
Code:
# cat 1
X
Y
Z
123
234
345
a b cd
b c de
c d ef

for alpha chars count
Code:
# sed -n 's/[a-z]/&/gp' 1|sed 's/./&\n/g'|sed '/^ *$/d'|sed -n '$='
12

for digit
Code:
# sed -n 's/[0-9]/&/gp' 1|sed 's/./&\n/g'|sed '/^ *$/d'|sed -n '$='
9

for upper chars
Code:
# sed -n 's/[A-Z]/&/gp' 1|sed 's/./&\n/g'|sed '/^ *$/d'|sed -n '$='
3

for lower and uppers
Code:
# sed -n 's/[A-Z]\|[a-z]/&/gp' 1|sed 's/./&\n/g'|sed '/^ *$/d'|sed -n '$='
15

# 4  
Old 06-05-2012
I am doing a kind of complex find and replace and i need no of count of that replacement.

sed '/HttpDefaultsGui.*enabled="true"/,/<\/ConfigTestElement/ s/name="HTTPSampler.proxyHost">.*</name="HTTPSampler.proxyHost">${gProxyHost}</' File.xml

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Hi Bala,
Its not giving me correct output.
I tried this -
sed '/HttpDefaultsGui.*enabled="true"/,/<\/ConfigTestElement/ s/name="HTTPSampler.proxyHost">.*</name="HTTPSampler.proxyHost">${gProxyHost}</' File.xml |perl -ne 'print s/l/x/g'
# 5  
Old 06-05-2012
Please post the sample input file and a brief description of what you intend to do.
# 6  
Old 06-05-2012
Hi Bala,
In a xml file i need to replace value of HTTPSampler.proxyHost with ${gProxyHost}. But this has to be between the tags HttpDefaultsGui.*enabled="true" and /ConfigTestElement.

My above sed command is working fine and giving me correct replaced file. But i need to calculate how many replacements has this command made?

So i am looking for a solution for this question. Do we have any tag like -c with grep which can give me count or anything else.
# 7  
Old 06-05-2012
Code:
[root@host dir]# cat input
ramdom text
random text
HttpDefaultsGui hello world mars enabled="true"
name="HTTPSampler.proxyHost">hello<
name="HTTPSampler.proxyHost">mars<
nama="HTTPsSampler.proxyHost">.*<
</ConfigTestElement
ramdom text
ramdom text
[root@host dir]#
[root@host dir]# cat test.pl
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $gProxyHost = "helloworld";
my $cnt = 0;

open FILE, "< input";
for (<FILE>) {
    if (/HttpDefaultsGui.*?enabled="true"/ .. /<\/ConfigTestElement/) {
        (/HttpDefaultsGui.*?enabled="true"/ || /<\/ConfigTestElement/) && next;
        $cnt += s/name="HTTPSampler.proxyHost">.*?</name="HTTPSampler.proxyHost">${gProxyHost}</;
        print;
    }
}
close FILE;

print "$cnt\n";
[root@host dir]#
[root@host dir]# ./test.pl
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