On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:09 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Here's a starting point. What's a more optimal way to perform this task? :-) > > sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m > > Tuesday afternoon shell optimisation party!
How do you want it optimised? grep -o is the most readable. But the fastest I've found so far is cat input.txt | tr -d '\n' | tr ',' '\n' | wc -l -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
