Hi Carol!

Nov 13 18:27 2017, Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Alexey Vissarionov:

 AV>> gremlin@fido:~ > grep ^link ~/fido/etc/links | wc -l
 AV>> 202

 CS> Smile, you may have to explain that to the average person here trying 
 CS> to figure out who to vote for as the RC calls come out.  Most are not 
 CS> *nix admin or use husky.  I would hope all knw you are very technical 
 CS> but suspect you zoomed over many heads there that are going to be 
 CS> voting.

 CS> (For the rest, been a bit but he seems to be pulling up a list of 
 CS> links? I am not a *nix person other than casually since about 2002 and 
 CS> i never used HPT. I could be wrong but he looks tobe piping changes 
 CS> to commit them to some HPT area then greping them back out.  AV is 
 CS> very technical and no one would disagree with that statement.  He's 
 CS> probably the most technical on the FTSC).

Unfortunately his search pattern isn't specific enough to catch only the links,
since there are several keyworks starting with "link". The next point is that
the keywords might also be uppercase. And the "wc -l" for counting the matching
lines can be omitted too:

grep -ic "^link\s" ~/fido/etc/links  

-i disables case-sensitive matching
-c for counting the matches
^ line starts with given pattern
\s any whitspace character


Sorry! I couldn't resist ;)

ciao,
Markus

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