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Old 08-08-2008
Count of Field for Non-Empty
Hi Guys,

I wanted to count the number of records for a particular field of a file. whose fields are separated by comma","

I fI use this command.
cat "filename" cut -sd "," -f13 | wc -l

This shows all the lines count including the blank values for the field number 13. I wanted to count record of field which are non-empty.

Kindly help me out.

Swapna
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Old 08-08-2008
Something like this?

Code:
awk -F, '$13{c++}END{print c}' file

Regards
Last edited by Franklin52; 08-08-2008 at 12:25 PM.. Reason: count instead of print the lines
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Old 08-08-2008
hi ,

if you feel easy , you can also use

cat <filename> | cut -sd "," -f13 | grep -v " " | wc -l

and reduce the count by 1

Rgds,
JeganR
 
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