Yrurtj

For example, we want to count all quote (") characters; we just worry if files have more quotes than it should.

For example:

cluster-env,"manage_dirs_on_root","true"

cluster-env,"one_dir_per_partition","false"

cluster-env,"override_uid","true"

cluster-env,"recovery_enabled","false"

expected results:

16

You can combine tr (translate or delete characters) with wc (count words, lines, characters):

tr -cd '"' < yourfile.cfg | wc -c

(-delete all characters in the complement of ", and then count the characters.)

grep approach:

grep -o '"' file | wc -l

16 

• 
  -o - output only matched substrings

Or with single gawk:

awk -v RS='' -v FPAT='"' '{print NF}' file

16

• RS='' - empty record separator (instead of newline)




• FPAT='"' - pattern defining field value

If two lines in the file has an odd number of double quotes, the total sum of double quotes will be even, and you will not detect unbalanced quotes (this is what I presume you'd like to actually do, but I might be wrong).

This awk script reports any line in the input line that has an odd number of quotes:

awk -F'"' 'NF % 2 == 0 { printf("Line %d has odd quoting: %sn", NR, $0) }'

We set the field separator (FS) to " with -F'"' which means that if a line has an even number of fields it has odd quotes. NF is the number of fields in the recent record, and NR is the ordinal number of the current record ("the line number").

Given the following input:

$ cat file

cluster-env,"manage_dirs_on_root","true"

cluster-env,"one_dir_per_partition","false"

cluster-env,override_uid","true"

cluster-env,recovery_enabled","false"

we get

$ awk -F'"' 'NF % 2 == 0 { printf("Line %d has odd quoting: %sn", NR, $0) }' file

Line 3 has odd quoting: cluster-env,override_uid","true"

Line 4 has odd quoting: cluster-env,recovery_enabled","false"

Something like

$ grep -o '"' | wc -l

would return "14" for this file.

Another single gawk approach:

awk -v RS=" 'END{print NR-1}'

Pure BASH:

var="$(< file.txt)"

tmp="${var//[^"]/}"

echo ${#tmp}

try:

grep -0 '"' File -c

however, this will not work if two or more char in the same line. They will be counted as one char

grep -oF ' " ' file | wc -l

-F stands for fixed string