[CentOS] question on grep

Wed Oct 10 19:07:47 UTC 2007
Andy Harrison <aharrison at gmail.com>

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On 10/10/07, Jerry Geis  wrote:
> Is there a command line option on grep that says
> count ALL occurances on a line not just the first one???
>
> echo "jerry jerry" | grep -c jerry
>

Grep can just count the number of lines with occurrences not the
number of them.  You can do it in perl though.


# echo "jerry jerry" | perl -lane '$count = grep $_ =~ m/jerry/, @F;
print $count'
2

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