OK, now why do some folk need the extra quoting and others don't? (redirect vs cat doesn't matter) Hickey,Thom wrote: >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 >> >> >> >>