-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Andy Harrison public key: 0x67518262 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org iD8DBQFHDSMVNTm8fWdRgmIRAsDIAJ9KiT+6vuaWjwezW+nd5YuHVRCJ6wCfQIoq Wat5Wo5Kmsup6XnJ06RVaVo= =WlD0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----