On 18/12/07 16:32:03, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> That's part of the challenge.
>
> 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
Robert Thorsby
Old timers will tell you what a pain unstable was
during the new testament transition.
-- Jon Corbet on Debian's KJV packages
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