line count with in the text files having multiple lines and single lines

Question

i am using UTL_FILE utility in oracle to get the data in to csv file. here i am using the script.

so i am getting the set of text files

case:1

Answer 1

egrep -c test1.csv doesn't have a search term to match for, so it's going to try to use test1.csv as the regular expression it tries to search for. I have no idea how you managed to get it to return 2 for your first example.

A useable egrep command that will actually produce the number of records in the files is egrep '"[[:digit:]]*"' test1.csv assuming your examples are actually accurate.

timp@helez:~/tmp$ cat test.txt
"sno","name"
"1","hari is in singapore
ramesh is in USA"
"2","pong is in chaina
chang is in malaysia
vilet is in uk"

timp@helez:~/tmp$ egrep -c '"[[:digit:]]*"' test.txt
2

timp@helez:~/tmp$ cat test2.txt
"sno","name"
"1","hari is in singapore"
"2","ramesh is in USA"

timp@helez:~/tmp$ egrep -c '"[[:digit:]]*"' test2.txt
2

Alternatively you might do better to add an extra value to your SELECT statement. Something like SELECT 'recmatch.,.,',sno,name FROM TABLE; instead of SELECT sno,name FROM TABLE; and then grep for recmatch.,., though that's something of a hack.