This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote:
><quote who="Robert Thorsby">
>
>> > 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
>
>Close in what sense, the syntax error, the length, or the output? ;-)
Why *are* you using the g option to sed's search and replace?
Oh I see, I misread your caret. Nevermind.
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