Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 16949
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1999/11/24-26 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16949 Activity:high
11/23   How do I count the number of times a single character occurs in
        a text file?
        \_ tr -dc '*' <sky | wc -c          # count the stars in the sky
           \_ Much appreciated.
           \_ very poetic. i like it.       _/
              \_ so a girl must have written it.  yet at the same time,
                 only a guy would try to pack different unix shell
                 functionality onto a single line.  so who's the author?
                 \_ an effeminate sodan (and how rare are those?)
                 \_ Males aren't creative?  Females can't use unix?  You're
                    an idiot.  It happens to be an old line.
                    \_ Therefore, it had to be written by a guy, since
                       there are no (ancient) female unix programmers.
                       :-)
                        \_ Uh yeah...  Even if so (it's not), being old means
                           even someone new could know it.  So it *must* be
                           a hermaphrodite.  Uh yeah.  That's it.  :-)
                           \_ I meant "written by", in the sense of
                              'FIRST written by'
                                \_ Oh.  In that case it isn't funny.  It was
                                   funny the other way.
        \_ while ((c=getchar()) != EOF) {
            if c=yourchar ...
        \_ perl -e '.....
        \_ Can't ED do this quite easily?
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