Re: Re: string occurrences
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Clive Standbridge
<Clive.Standbridge@myriadgroup.com> wrote:
> Eric Gerlach wrote:
>> 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
thank you, i'll test it soon
--
roberto
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