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Replace, Grep — Elliott C. Back

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  • stran

    4 years ago

    %grep 'think' jean-thinks.txt | wc -l
    14

    BOOYAH!
    :^)
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  • Elliott Bäck

    4 years ago

    Sorry stran, that doesn't work. That will give you:

    %grep ‘think' jean-thinks.txt | wc -l
    6


    See, grep counts lines, and there are only 6 lines with 'think' in them. You really need to split think onto seperate lines first, although the slashes got lost in the post...
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  • Xander

    4 years ago

    Why not use sed? Perl seems like an overkill. And no need for a temporary file if u pipe it.

    sed s/think/think\n/g jean-thinks.txt | grep think | wc -l
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  • Elliott Bäck

    4 years ago

    I used temporary files because for some reason piping this stuff on windows doesn't work properly (i.e., like unix). If I were on linux, Xander, you got it ;)
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