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

[Scott Ragen <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

slug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 18/12/2007 04:09:15 PM:

> Hi all,
> 
> Here's a starting point. What's a more optimal way to perform this task? 
:-)
> 
>   sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m
> 

Not the most graceful, but the following seems to work:
        grep -o ',' input.txt |wc -l

Cheers,

Scott