On Dec 18, 2007 4:53 PM, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <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? >
Not a bug at all! grep -c only counts the number of matching lines, not the number of occurances of a pattern in a line. Lindsay -- http://slug.org.au/ (the Sydney Linux Users Group) http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ (me) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
