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# 22  
Old 02-23-2008
The sed is not putting the $pattern_da_cercare on new lines
I will have to think about the following:

sed 's/$pattern_da_cercare/$pattern_da_cercare \n/g' $zf >tempf

This is now a sed issue on inserting a line feed to force a new line

if pattern="smith"
...it should replace

Quote:
smith this smith that
with

Quote:
smith
this smith
that
prior to the
numpat=$(cat tempf | grep "$pattern_da_cercare" | wc -l)
# 23  
Old 02-23-2008
Question
Quote:
Originally Posted by joeyg
I will have to think about the following:

sed 's/$pattern_da_cercare/$pattern_da_cercare \n/g' $zf >tempf

This is now a sed issue on inserting a line feed to force a new line

if pattern="smith"
...it should replace

with

prior to the
numpat=$(cat tempf | grep "$pattern_da_cercare" | wc -l)
So, what changes I have to do to make the script work?
# 24  
Old 02-24-2008
sed not inserting a blank line
Code:
sed 's/$pattern_da_cercare/$pattern_da_cercare \n/g' $zf >tempf

That command is not inserting a blank line after each $pattern_da_cercare as I thought it should.

Try to research into sed to insert a blank line.
# 25  
Old 03-12-2008
Question
Quote:
Originally Posted by joeyg
Code:
sed 's/$pattern_da_cercare/$pattern_da_cercare \n/g' $zf >tempf

That command is not inserting a blank line after each $pattern_da_cercare as I thought it should.

Try to research into sed to insert a blank line.
I tryed to research how to insert into sed a blanck line but I wasn't succeed.

Doe anyone know how to do it?
# 26  
Old 03-12-2008
I got lost going through this thread. But the final question seems to be:
Code:
$ echo "abc abc abc" | sed 's/abc/abc\
> /g'
abc
 abc
 abc

$

The backslash is the thing on the first line so sed sees a backslash newline. I need a "g" at the end of sed s command to operate on all occurences of "abc".
# 27  
Old 03-12-2008
or use tr to ceate a list with one word per line, then the grep to count:

e.g.

Code:
tr -cs "[:alpha:]" "[\n*]" < infile | grep -cw searchstring
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