At 2004-11-07T21:53:57+1300, Timothy Pick wrote: > grep a txt.txt -o |wc
> Fine someone tell me this don't work either
It works, but you need to use the line count from wc(1), not the
character count--the character count will include newlines, so the
figure is wrong.
That solution is even less efficient than using sed(1).
Cheers,
-mjg
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