Re: string occurrences

[Eric Gerlach <egerlach@feds.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 04:11:03PM -0600, Brian Ryans wrote:
> Quoting roberto on 2010-01-23 15:33:53:
> > is there any linux built-in utilities to count how many times a string
> > occur in a text file ?
> 
> I don't know of any actual utilities to do so, but there's a handy
> little pipeline that I use as a generic string-counter that, so far,
> works for all files I've tried, printable or not.
> 
> $ strings $yourFile | grep -oe '$yourString' | wc -l

It's a bit nitpicky, but you could save a step and a few keystrokes with: 

$ strings $yourFile | grep -oce '$yourString'

Cheers,

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