Counting characters with unix utilities
WU SHI-KUEI
skwu at boulder.Colorado.EDU
Tue Sep 25 02:29:57 AEST 1990
The solution:
cat file | tr -c 'A' '' | wc -c
is very close. Just change it to:
cat file | tr -cd 'A' | wc -c
and you'll count nothing but A's.
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