<quote who="Jamie Wilkinson"> > > sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m > > > >Tuesday afternoon shell optimisation party! > > You want to count the total number of characters in a file, not including > newlines, that are on lines that don't start with a comma.
That's an... interesting... reading of the command. Clearly this should be a Tuesday afternoon only activity rather than a Tuesday-almost-Wednesday after a few drinks activity. ;-) > Does it have to be in shell? :-) No sir! But shell usually wins. - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
