How to get the no of matched occurrences using grep command in linux?
Question
If we use grep -c option it will give you the each occurrences only once per line. But I need the total no of matched occurrences not line count.
2 answers
solution1
1 2015-11-02 12:49:24
You can use -o flag to output only the matched part and then pipe it to wc -w to get word count.
Eg: ls ~ | grep -o pattern | wc -w ls ~ | grep -o pattern | wc -w
solution2
1 ACCPTED 2015-11-02 12:53:16
Use this grep -o pattern path | wc -l
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