S Mathias <smathias1972@yahoo.com> wrote: > *recursively count the words occurrence in the text files like: "word1 2" > can anyone point to a howto/link? [re: i just can't google for it :\] What are you actually trying to do? Neither your example nor your description makes any sense, here. Are you perhaps trying to count the number of words in a series of files? wc -l $( find * -type f ) Or something else? Chris