Help with a mini script

waelkd · 01-31-2014, 03:41 AM

Good day

Would someone please help me with the following

1) how can i count an article written by one author.
Now if the article has more then one author ,like author names are seperated by commas it should not count it.

2)finally a command that output the single authors name,to a file, and they should be sorted alaphabatically

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Edit: How can we count articles found in a file, now these articles are seperated by ----------.

Thanks again

grail · 01-31-2014, 03:49 AM

What have you done to solve this problem?

Are you looking to write a shell script or perhaps perl or some other language?

waelkd · 01-31-2014, 04:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grail

What have you done to solve this problem?

Are you looking to write a shell script or perhaps perl or some other language?

yes sir , looking to write it a shell script or write it on python

grail · 01-31-2014, 08:53 AM

You did not answer the first question ... what have you done? We are here to help, not to do the work for you.