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abadjm
abadjm

Reputation: 166

Counting how many lines continue to next line in bash?

how to find out how many lines continue to next line in bash? I have an bash script and I need to count how many lines continue to next line.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 111

Answers (1)

John1024
John1024

Reputation: 113814

If we define a line that "continues to next line in bash" as a line that ends in backslash, the the number of lines that continue to the next one can be found from:

grep  '\\$' file1 | wc -l

grep selects the lines ending in a backslash and wc-l counts them.

The equivalent solution using sed looks like:

sed -n '/\\$/p' file1 | wc -l

Upvotes: 2

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