[ale] awk fun

[William Miller]

Jim,

Have you tried the following?

awk '{print NF}' test

That yielded the following for me:

107
0
97
14
27
0
83
0
104
0
102
0
84
14
0
1



Wiliam


On 04/21/2010 03:06 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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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