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Old 04-14-04, 06:36
jayroc2k jayroc2k is offline
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snetence count

hi
i need to count sentences in a file ending with full stop only "." i tried the following but it count all line regardless

sed “s/[.]/@/g” text | tr ‘@’ ‘\12’ > temp1
wc –l temp1
pls make it simple without complicated programming.
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