> The problem: I need to count the number of "bar's" between the "foo's". > Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. >
Do you mean 'bar's between the first and last foo'? Do you have exactly 2 foo's? Sed seems to be a better choice to multi-line dependencies like this -^. Remember that Windows versionS are less friendly because of metacharacters. Try to give for sed a script in "s. Some tips: sed "1,/foo/d" - eats lines to the first foo. sed -n "1,/foo/p" - eats lines after the first foo. grep -c bar - counts. mw158979 _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list help-gnu-utils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils
