Try this:

tr '\035' '\n' <stuff.marc | wc -l

--Th


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Barnett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 4:47 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Linfeed Trick

Hello, lurker speaking up. :-)

When I try this it doesn't seem to work.  The escape sequences both wind
up being treated like the single character (number) 0 . (see below)

$ echo X |tr X Y
Y
$ echo X |tr X \012
0
$ echo X |tr X \035
0
$ echo XX |tr X \012
00
$ echo X | wc -l
       1
$ echo XX |tr X \012 | wc -l
       1

I'm thinking maybe there are some terminal or shell settings also needed?


Hickey,Thom wrote:

>Actually, I do like writing code, but ended up using 'tr' to do the
>substitution, even though I did come up with Python code that was actually
>faster.
>
>--Th
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ed Summers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:24 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Linfeed Trick
>
>On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:49:22AM -0400, Houghton,Andrew wrote:
>
>
>>cat *.mrc | tr \035 \012 | wc -l
>>
>>
>
>Isn't that shell code :)
>
>//Ed
>
>