[CentOS] question on grep

On 10/10/07, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote:
> mups.cp wrote:
> >
> > A simple one
> > # echo "jerry jerry" | tr " " "\n" | grep -c jerry
> > 2
> >
> > The perl seems more general.
>
>
> To add yet another variation:
>
> echo "jerry jerry" | awk 'BEGIN {RS=FS} {/jerry/ jerry++} END {print jerry}'
>
Did you mean:

   echo "jerry jerry" | awk 'BEGIN {RS=FS} /jerry/ {jerry++} END {print jerry}'

The one you gave does not handle "jerry blue jerry" for instance?

Cheers...james