Re: List out

[Allodoxaphobia]

On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:19:37 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 03:02:58AM +0000, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
>> err... uhhhh... What's your *bash bug* ???
>
> I think what he meant to say is, "Questions of this type should be
> sent to help-bash@gnu.org instead of bug-bash@gnu.org."
>
> Now... you've been given a Python solution, and I could write one in
> Tcl or Perl as well.  Using pure bash for this task would be an utterly
> poor choice, for performance reasons.
>
> The closest thing to a pure bash answer you can get, that would actually
> be viable in real life, would be one using awk.
>
> awk '
>   {
>     n=0
>     label=$2
>     for (i=3; i<=NF; i++) {
>       if ($i == "NA") n++
>     }
>     print NR ".", label, n
>   }
> ' "$file"

Remeber to _always_ reply to homework assignments with 
the most advanced and obscure solutions so as to make 
the teacher/professor say "WHAT THE HELL...?!?!?!"