Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:27:32 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Kenzo <kenzo_chin@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl help Message-ID: <20030326222732.GC19762@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <DAV44DVRXGsNLqY54z30000b1d0@hotmail.com> References: <DAV44DVRXGsNLqY54z30000b1d0@hotmail.com>
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On 2003-03-26 14:18, Kenzo <kenzo_chin@hotmail.com> wrote: > I don't know how to write anything in perl and will eventually learn it. > but I was wondering if anyone would help write a quick perl script for me. > > 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 ... - Giorgos
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