Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

[Martin Barry <marty@xxxxxxxxxx>]

$quoted_author = "Jeff Waugh" ;
> 
> Here's a starting point. What's a more optimal way to perform this task? :-)

the first question was "what is the task trying to achieve?" :)

 
>   sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m

you appear to be counting the number of fields in a csv file but unless
there is a trailing comma each line worth of data will be 'off by 1'

cheers
marty

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