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Old 10-09-2008
number of lines returned from a grep command
hi all,
from a shell (ksh) script, i am doing a 'grep'. how do i find out the number of lines returned from that 'grep' command ??

thanks in advance.
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Old 10-09-2008
use grep -c option
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Old 10-09-2008
thanks for the reply. grep -c only Prints only a count of the lines that contain the pattern. i wanted the actual line and also the number of lines returned as well.

is there a way to check the length of a string in unix ?? i could possibly use this to see how many lines were returned.
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Old 10-09-2008
Use AWK (nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris):

Code:
awk 'END{print c}/pattern/&&++c' input

Last edited by radoulov; 10-09-2008 at 07:09 PM.. Reason: Corrected: c++ to ++c :)
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Old 10-09-2008
line=$(grep -n "$pattern" "$filename" | cut -f1 -d':')
found=$(echo $line | awk '{print NF}'
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