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How do you search the string for vowel's occurrence and number of occurrences of each vowel

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Last Update: July 19, 2008 Asked by: Nidhi2177

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Submitted by: svaidehi

Even the below command can be used:

grep -io [aeiou] filename | wc -w

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jrgalaura

October 25, 2007 05:45:59

anuj.mmmec

Member Since: October 2007 Contribution: 2

RE: How do you search the string for vowel's occurrenc...

for a=cat filename |tr -d 'eioubcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890()~`!@#$%^&*"()_+{}|:"<>?,./;][=-/n ' |grep a|wc -m
for e=cat filename |tr -d 'aioubcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890()~`!@#$%^&*"()_+{}|:"<>?,./;][=-/n ' |grep e|wc -m
for i=cat filename |tr -d 'aeoubcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890()~`!@#$%^&*"()_+{}|:"<>?,./;][=-/n ' |grep i|wc -m
for o=cat filename |tr -d 'aeiubcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890()~`!@#$%^&*"()_+{}|:"<>?,./;][=-/n ' |grep o|wc -m
for u=cat filename |tr -d 'aeiobcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890()~`!@#$%^&*"()_+{}|:"<>?,./;][=-/n ' |grep u|wc -m

it will give the no of time that vowel has been occured

for searching the string
cat filename | grep 'aeiou'

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October 25, 2007 05:57:37

anuj.mmmec

Member Since: October 2007 Contribution: 2

RE: How do you search the string for vowel's occurrenc...

hey please also add tr -d ' before wc -m

FE : cat filename|tr -d 'eioubcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890()~`!@#$%^&*"()_+{}|:"<>?,./;][=-/n ' |grep a|tr -d '|wc -m

for counting the vowels

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April 10, 2008 03:22:01

svaidehi

Member Since: April 2008 Contribution: 1

RE: How do you search the string for vowel's occurrence and number of occurrences of each vowel

Even the below command can be used:

grep -io [aeiou] filename | wc -w

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July 19, 2008 13:37:57

anu1985

Member Since: May 2008 Contribution: 11

RE: How do you search the string for vowel's occurrence and number of occurrences of each vowel

tail -n +2 <file>|head -n 1

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