Re^4: problem count the number of words -- oneliner

Guess it depends on what OP means by "all words", but sure.

# works like wc
perl -ne 's/\s+/$i++/eg;END{print "$i\n"}' f1 f2
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Not sure why you have the "i" modifier.

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Re^5: problem count the number of words -- oneliner by pme (Monsignor) on Dec 26, 2018 at 21:00 UTC
You are right, we do not need "i".	[reply]