sajad torkamani

Count occurrences of a string in a file

11 March 2022 (Updated 11 March 2022) 
cat myfile.txt | grep 'foo' -o | wc -l

This will print the number of times the string foo appears in myfile.txt. This is useful when you need to count string occurrences as part of some script.

Tagged: Unix

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