I have a text file called "shoplist.txt" which one have:
drinks water cola fanta
fruit banana orange
And I want to get how many items per line I have. I'm able to extract drinks and fruit with function "cut" but how can I count how many words I have in each line?
My actually code is:
fileLine=`cat file.txt`
#Here I get each line saving it to fileLine
for line in $fileLine; do
echo
((aux++))
done
But this code dosen't work because it save to %fileLine each work (drinks, then water,then cola,...)
How can I get the first line and then count the words on that line?
awk
script in the answer what you want to have? If not, what exactly do you want to get?