no of occurences of q word

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi I hace a string
"abc,def,ghi,abc,def ,ghi,abc,def,ghi,abc,def ,ghi,abc"
i replaced commas with spaces, now i want to calculate nof occurences of "abc" word.

thanks in advance
Satya

2

If you will replace comma(,) with newline then you can use awk to get number of occurrence of 'abc' like this :-

cat testfile | tr "," "\n" | awk /abc/ | wc -l

sed 's/,/\n/g' testfile | awk /abc/ |wc -l

3

try this........
awk '{x=0;for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)if($i == "abc" )x++; print x}' abc

in case, ur file is a comma delimited one, then.....
awk -F, '{x=0;for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)if($i == "abc" )x++; print x}' abc

4

if you have Python

#!/usr/bin/env python
s="abc,def,ghi,abc,def ,ghi,abc,def,ghi,abc,def ,ghi,abc"
print s.count("abc")

or at the shell

# s="abc,def,ghi,abc,def ,ghi,abc,def,ghi,abc,def ,ghi,abc"
# echo $s | python -c "print raw_input().count('abc')"
5
5

simply try this

awk 'BEGIN{RS=","}{if($0=="abc"){x += 1}}END{print x}' filename
6

hi vijay,
what u gave is good, but where i need to pass the string or file name

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awk '{x=0;for(i=1;i<=NF;i++)if($i == "abc" )x++; print x}' <filename>

Actually, I 'd named the i/p file as "abc"..so the confusion..
sorry for that