<quote who="James Gray"> >> Not the most graceful, but the following seems to work: >> grep -o ',' input.txt |wc -l > > Assuming we're using GNU "grep" we can leave the pipe off: > grep -c -o ',' input.txt
Hmm, unfortunately the -c misinterprets the count due to a weird interaction between -c and -o. I wonder if this should be regarded as a bug in GNU grep? $ grep -o ',' input.txt | wc -l 19 $ grep -c -o ',' input.txt 10 - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 I get my kicks above the .sigline, sunshine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
