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Old 06-08-2005
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How can i do a simple record count in my shell script? i just want to count the number of records i receive from a specific file.
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Old 06-08-2005
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Originally Posted by k@ssidy
How can i do a simple record count in my shell script? i just want to count the number of records i receive from a specific file.
what's your definition of a 'record'?
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Old 06-08-2005
it's just name, car, start, and finish for each record, i've read everywhere about how to count characters/words/lines with wc but nothing about counting records, i guess technically they could be considered separate files even. in any case, i just need to do a simple count when the files are done to have a number on record.
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Old 06-08-2005
once again what is a record?

A single line with multiple fields?
A block of lines, one field for line?
Some combo of the above?

A sample file could be helpful......
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Old 06-08-2005
a single line with multiple fields, like:

name car start finish <- these are the fields

bob 3:16 17 13 <- this line is one record

is this what you were looking for?
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Old 06-08-2005
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Originally Posted by k@ssidy
a single line with multiple fields, like:

name car start finish <- these are the fields

bob 3:16 17 13 <- this line is one record

is this what you were looking for?
so doing 'wc -l < fileName' would count the number of lines/records
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Old 06-08-2005
ok, i was a little confused over that, not knowing if they were the same but then how would i do a count of files received (each file being made up of a block of lines)?
 
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