[ale] awk fun

[Jim Kinney]

I was testing an awk one-liner and hit one that doesn't work.

awk '{ s = 0; for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) s = s+$i; print s }'

should return the number of word/field per line. I haven't tinkered
with the FS setting. the file I'm testing on is an ipsolorum I
generated days ago. It's at the bottom of this email.

When I test the values I should get with:
grep -o " " test| grep -c " "
where test has the ipsolorum text I get 626 which, without actually
counting seems OK if not a bit high.

But the awk returns:
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
0
0
0


Correct # of lines but totally crap number of words.






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James P. Kinney III
Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
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