On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Vamsi Krishna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi all, > > i need to grep a word count from a text file and i want to display the > count. > i need all the above in a rake file , i tried it by using > > today_count= system("grep -R 'time' oct_10.txt | grep -R 'hi' | wc > -l") > puts "today count is :#{today_count}" > > but today_count returns 'true' instead of count. normal, system() return true or false only, not stdout...
you can use ``, popen, or code that in ruby. today_count = File.open('oct_10.txt').grep('time').grep('hi').size (not tested) -- Gabriel Laskar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---