Re: Counting occurances of a word in a file.

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:53:33 -0800, peasthope wrote:

> What is a convenient tool for counting the occurances of a specific byte
> sequence in a file?  Count the occurances of "the" or  %13%10"the " in a
> text file for example.

Quick and dirty sample:

***
grep -o "the" /path/to/file.txt | wc -w
***

Greetings,

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Camaleón