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Old 11-21-2002
scripting - write a script that will count the number of times a particular word

hello everyone,
I'm trying to learn some scripts but i cant get my head around two of them.

1. how can i write a script that will count the number of times a particular word is used in file?

2. how can i make a script that will take me to a web page from unix?

if anyone could help it would be appreciated very much.
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Old 11-21-2002
What are you writing these scripts in? What shell?
(What OS too)

Post anything you may have started and the problems you are having.
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Old 06-24-2009
Even i am very new to scripting so i am not very sure of some advance regular expressions. So i am giving the basic shell script
Code:
 
count=0
for i in  $(cat location of file)
do
if [ $i == name ]; #name which you want to find from the given file
then
count=`expr $count + 1`
fi
done
echo $count

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Old 06-24-2009
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