[ale] awk fun

[Jim Kinney]

replying to myself as I figured out that the one-liner was just plain
broken.

cat test | awk '{  s = s + NF }; END { print s }'

works as desired. And matched output from wc -w

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was testing an awk one-liner and hit one that doesn't work.
>
> awk '{ s = 0; for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) s = s+$i; print s }'
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> should return the number of word/field per line. I haven't tinkered with the FS setting. the file I'm testing on is an ipsolorum I generated days ago. It's at the bottom of this email.
>
> When I test the values I should get with:
> grep -o " " test| grep -c " "
> where test has the ipsolorum text I get 626 which, without actually counting seems OK if not a bit high.
>
> But the awk returns:
>
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 0
> 12
> 0
> 0
> 0
>
>
> Correct # of lines but totally crap number of words.
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> --
> James P. Kinney III
> Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
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James P. Kinney III
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