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From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
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Subject: Re: Counting characters with unix utilities
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Date: 24 Sep 90 15:00:53 GMT
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In-reply-to: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu's message of 23 Sep 90 23:16:58 GMT



i didn't want to answer this one, but

In article <EMV.90Sep23181658@picasso.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:

   In article <4002@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu writes:

	...
      cat file | tr -c 'A' '' | wc -c

	...

   ...
   cat file | tr -cd 'A' | wc -c



ed must have been kidding when he left the cat in place, instead of

tr -cd 'A' < file | wc -c

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