Counting characters with unix utilities

[Bob McGowen x4312 dept208]

In article <EMV.90Sep24165437 at picasso.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv at math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>In article <TED.90Sep24090053 at kythera.nmsu.edu> ted at nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) writes:
>
>      cat file | tr -cd 'A' | wc -c
>
>   ed must have been kidding when he left the cat in place, instead of
....
>
>nope.  I cat files all the time.  That way when I go back to edit this command
>to work on the output of a command instead of the contents of a file
...

Also, a script using:

	cat $* | tr -cd 'A' | wc -c

can use command line args OR read its standard input.

Bob McGowan  (standard disclaimer, these are my own ...)
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