[NTLUG:Discuss] Scripting help

[Fred James]

Dennis Myhand wrote:
> Fred James wrote:
>   
>> Dennis Myhand
>> Is anywhere near that what you want (see below)?
>> Regards
>> Fred James
>>
>> $ cat fred
>> The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
>> $ grep the fred | wc
>>       1       9      45
>> $ grep -i the fred | wc
>>       1       9      45
>> $
>>
>>     
>
> Yeah, Fred, that works.  What I finnaly did, just so they could see the 
> redirect to another file as well was
>
> grep the fred | wc > thecount.txt
>
> That gets the numbers from wc out from under the line and redirects to 
> another file.  I want to give them a hypothetical example of grepping a 
> pattern and saving the number of instances of the pattern to a file that 
> can be reviewed later.  These are mostly M$ children but even the one 
> who runs Linux at home has never used a comamnd line before.
>   
Dennis Myhand
Keep in mind that even with the i option (-i) this command line counts 
the number of lines in which 'the' or 'The' occur, but not the number of 
occurrences of the word.
Hope that helps
Regards
Fred James