On 10/10/07, Ross S. W. Walker rwalker@medallion.com wrote:
mups.cp wrote:
A simple one # echo "jerry jerry" | tr " " "\n" | grep -c jerry 2
The perl seems more general.
To add yet another variation:
echo "jerry jerry" | awk 'BEGIN {RS=FS} {/jerry/ jerry++} END {print jerry}'
Did you mean:
echo "jerry jerry" | awk 'BEGIN {RS=FS} /jerry/ {jerry++} END {print jerry}'
The one you gave does not handle "jerry blue jerry" for instance?
Cheers...james