count pipes ("|") in a file 2

[mwesticle]

I need a simple nawk, awk, or sed program (or anything else, really) that will count the number of pipe characters in a file. So, if my file looks like this:

222222222222222|2222|2222|222222|||
|222222|222|222222222222||222|
|||22222222|222222222|2|||222222222222|

I need the program to return me: 21

Simple enough, I know... Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

 

[vgersh99]

sed -e 's/[^|]//g' file.txt | wc -c

vlad
+----------------------------+
| #include<disclaimer.h> |
+----------------------------+

 

[vgersh99]

ooops - that's a bit better, but still not elegant:

echo "$(( $(sed -e 's/[^|]//g' -e 's/$//g' file.txt | wc -m) - $(sed -e 's/[^|]//g' -e 's/$//g' file.txt | wc -l) ))"

vlad
+----------------------------+
| #include<disclaimer.h> |
+----------------------------+

 

[vgersh99]

or with awk:

nawk '{cnt+=gsub("[|]","");} END {print cnt}' file.txt

vlad
+----------------------------+
| #include<disclaimer.h> |
+----------------------------+

 

[ericbrunson]

sed -e 's/\(.\)/\1\n/g' yourfile.txt | grep -c '|'

 

[mwesticle]

Jeez... So much to choose from... Thanks everyone!!!

 

[futurelet]

awk 'BEGIN{RS="|"}END{print NR-1}' file

If the last line of the file lacks a newline character and it ends with a "|", the count will be off by 1.

If you have nawk, use it instead of awk because on some systems awk is very old and lacks many useful features. For an introduction to Awk, see faq271-5564.