On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:57:39PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> ><quote who="Robert Thorsby">
> >
> >> > sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m
> >>
> >> Something like the following might be close:
> >>
> >> awk 'BEGIN{FS=","}{$0~",$":i=i+NF?i=i+NF-1}END{print(i)}' input.txt
> >
> >Close in what sense, the syntax error, the length, or the output? ;-)
>
> Why *are* you using the g option to sed's search and replace?
g - global (?) means to do it more than one time on the line
>
> Oh I see, I misread your caret. Nevermind.
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