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Re: Replace, Grep — Elliott C. Back

Elliott Bäck — Sun, 08 May 2005 20:08:49 -0000

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 ;)

Re: Replace, Grep — Elliott C. Back

Xander — Sun, 08 May 2005 17:48:41 -0000

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

Re: Replace, Grep — Elliott C. Back

Elliott Bäck — Fri, 06 May 2005 10:35:03 -0000

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...

Re: Replace, Grep — Elliott C. Back

stran — Fri, 06 May 2005 09:36:00 -0000

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

BOOYAH!
:^)