Comments on: Replace, Grep

By: Elliott B�ck

Elliott B�ck — Mon, 09 May 2005 00:08:49 +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

By: Xander

Xander — Sun, 08 May 2005 21:48:41 +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

By: Elliott B�ck

Elliott B�ck — Fri, 06 May 2005 14:35:03 +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…

By: stran

stran — Fri, 06 May 2005 13:36:00 +0000

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

BOOYAH!
:^)