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# 8  
Old 08-17-2012
Code:
# egrep -c '^[[:graph:]]{1,6}$' /tmp/mediacheck
0

# 9  
Old 08-17-2012
Seems like your egrep does not support POSIX bracket expressions. Try:
Code:
awk 'length<=6 && !/^[ \t]*$/{t++}END{print t}' /tmp/mediacheck

# 10  
Old 08-17-2012
This seems to work

Code:
]# cat /tmp/mediacheck | sort -u | egrep -v "^$" | awk 'length<=8{cnt++}END{print cnt}'
57

Last edited by Franklin52; 08-17-2012 at 06:27 AM.. Reason: fixed code tags
# 11  
Old 08-17-2012
Code:
 
awk 'NF>0 && length<=6{c++}END{print c}' /tmp/mediacheck

# 12  
Old 08-17-2012
That works... Fine

Code:
awk 'length<=6 && !/^[ \t]*$/{t++}END{print t}' /tmp/mediacheck
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