[ale] awk fun

[Geoffrey]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> I was testing an awk one-liner and hit one that doesn't work.
> 
> awk '{ s = 0; for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) s = s+$i; print s }'

I think you want:

awk '{ s = 0; for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) s = s+i; print s }'

> 
> should return the number of word/field per line. I haven't tinkered
> with the FS setting. the file I'm testing on is an ipsolorum I
> generated days ago. It's at the bottom of this email.
> 
> 
> When I test the values I should get with: grep -o " " test| grep -c "
> " where test has the ipsolorum text I get 626 which, without actually
> counting seems OK if not a bit high.
> 
> But the awk returns:
> 
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0
> 
> 
> Correct # of lines but totally crap number of words.
> 
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