Some commands have a -- some have a -. Other times --option is synonomous with -otheroption. You have to look at each command's options to get a good grep. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 12:08 AM Subject: RE: how to chek for the number of options in an app > Hi Ned, > > About the ls -l | wc -l thing: yeh totally man: I just forgot to mention > grep in the first email ... > > And about the '-' thing: well, that's true; however, don't the '-' and '--' > appear on the same line anyways? If they do, then why does it matter? > > Oh, and to answer your question: > > The regular expression: '-+' would check for 1 or more occurances of '-' > consecutively > > Take care, > Sina > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Ned > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 2:03 AM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: how to chek for the number of options in an app > > Thanks Sina, > > In your first post you said: > ls --help | wc -l > Wouldn't it only count the number of lines within the help file of the ls > command? > The grep is a much better idea, I tried something like: > ls --help | grep -c '-' > and it returned 51 because it counted both '-' and '--', but don't know how > to ... is there a logical or operator for situations like this? > I want to check for '-' or '--' > How to do that? > > Many thanks! > Ned > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com> > To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:28 PM > Subject: RE: how to chek for the number of options in an app > > > > Hi ned, > > > > ... To go back to what I said before, try playing with grep, so you could > > at > > least set up a regular expression for only the lines that have commands on > > them ... > > > > Take care, > > Sina > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > > On Behalf Of Ned > > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 3:19 PM > > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > > Subject: how to chek for the number of options in an app > > > > Hi all, > > Is there a way to check, without counting by hand within the manual, how > > many options are there for a command such as ls, more, bash, etc? > > If not, what's the shortest way of doing that through the man? > > > > Many thanks in advance! > > Ned > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
