A simple one # echo "jerry jerry" | tr " " "\n" | grep -c jerry 2 The perl seems more general. On 10/10/07, Andy Harrison <aharrison at gmail.com> wrote: > -----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----- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >