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How to count empty line using grep
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I have a text file. Some lines contain text while others do not (just empty line without any spaces or characters:
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// comment
45
As you can see, there is a line above //comment. If I want to count the times such line exist in my file, how can I grep them?
text-processing files grep search
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// comment
45
As you can see, there is a line above //comment. If I want to count the times such line exist in my file, how can I grep them?
text-processing files grep search
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123
// comment
45
As you can see, there is a line above //comment. If I want to count the times such line exist in my file, how can I grep them?
text-processing files grep search
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You can grep empty lines with grep '^$' file and count the lines with wc -l. Combined it's:
grep '^$' file | wc -l
or even shorter with grep's count option -c or --count
grep -c '^$' file
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See alsogrep -c
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Thanks @StephenHarris ! I totally forgot this option.
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You can grep empty lines with grep '^$' file and count the lines with wc -l. Combined it's:
grep '^$' file | wc -l
or even shorter with grep's count option -c or --count
grep -c '^$' file
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See alsogrep -c
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Thanks @StephenHarris ! I totally forgot this option.
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You can grep empty lines with grep '^$' file and count the lines with wc -l. Combined it's:
grep '^$' file | wc -l
or even shorter with grep's count option -c or --count
grep -c '^$' file
answered 31 mins ago
FreddyFreddy
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See alsogrep -c
– Stephen Harris
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Thanks @StephenHarris ! I totally forgot this option.
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You can grep empty lines with grep '^$' file and count the lines with wc -l. Combined it's:
grep '^$' file | wc -l
or even shorter with grep's count option -c or --count
grep -c '^$' file
answered 31 mins ago
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You can grep empty lines with grep '^$' file and count the lines with wc -l. Combined it's:
grep '^$' file | wc -l
or even shorter with grep's count option -c or --count
grep -c '^$' file
answered 31 mins ago
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See alsogrep -c
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See alsogrep -c
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Thanks @StephenHarris ! I totally forgot this option.
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grep -c– Stephen Harris
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See also
grep -c– Stephen Harris
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