In the last episode (Mar 27), Giorgos Keramidas said:
> On 2003-03-26 14:18, Kenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Basically I want the script to look thru a file for certain words
> > and cound how many times it finds the word that comes after. I have
> > a log file that keeps track of E-mail attachments being send and
> > received, and I want to be able to do a count of certain
> > attachments. for example. say I see alot of "big this", "big that"
> > and "big nothing" I want to be able to see how many times the word
> > that comes after big appears in the log file.
> >
> > so the output would be like this.
> > this 5
> > that 10
> > nothing 20
>
> You don't need Perl for that. Here's a small trick:
>
> grep 'this' file | wc -l
> grep 'that' file | wc -l
> ...
Even better:
grep -c 'this' file
grep -c 'that' file
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Dan Nelson
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