UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

Is there anyway I could get the count of some strings (I only know the position of the string, I don't know the exact strings) Say for example I need to get a count of some 8 strings which will be starting from position 15 and is 15 characters in length.

Is there anyway of doing this in command line, (without writing script). I am very new to this, please help

Many Thanks,

Try :

more filename | cut -c15-29 | uniq -c

Hi,

I need to get the count of each and every uniq string? Any help is much appreciated.

Cheers

Hi,

That's perfect. I just need to sort the file, it works just fine.

Many Thanks for that.

but why you need to sort it at all if you only want uniqe counts?

Thought uniq won't work properly if the file is not sorted.