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Doh! Thanks p5wizard & feherke. The code works much faster. Toby

Thanks feherke, I'm running awk that's supplied with Mac OS X 10.4.10. I think there was some hidden junk at the end of my file or something, because when i re-generated the input file, the awk script worked. I agree a dedicated counter would be better than my crummy slow code! wc works, but i...

Hi, I have written a one-liner script to count the # of rows and coulmns for a file, like this: % more dim if [ $# -eq 0 ] then echo "Usage: dim filename" exit fi awk 'BEGIN{FS="\t"} {nfe=NF} END{print NR " " nfe}' $1 This works fine on small files. e.g. % dim smallfile.ped 2300...

Hi, I'm a newbie to the forum & linux scripting in general, so i hope i'm posting the right place. Problem: I have written a one-liner script to count the # of rows and coulmns for a file, like this: % more dim if [ $# -eq 0 ] then echo "Usage: dim filename" exit fi awk...