Scott Ragen wrote:
I have to disagree. Whilst it may be fast, its not 100% correct.
Most of the time it would probably work, but if there are any blank lines,
it outputs the current count, and starts again.
Consider the following file contents:
--file contents--
this,is,the,first,line
this,is,the,second
the,above,was,a,blank,line
and,another,blank,line
--end file contents--
On Jeff's original command:
sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m
15
The perl command:
perl -00 -ne 'print tr/,//' input.txt
753
Change the input line separator to octal 0777:
perl -0777 -ne 'print tr/,//' input.txt
15
cheers
rickw
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