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. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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