Timeline for Count total number of occurrences using grep
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| Nov 4, 2023 at 13:58 | comment | added | Hi-Angel | The whole point of the question is exactly that the -c option does not work. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 21:52 | comment | added | user3730 | @rugk You completely missed the first sentence in OP's post, which explicitly explains that -c only counts one occurrence per line. If a string occurs 1000 times on the same line, grep -c will still only count it as one. This answer makes no sense at all for this question. | |
| Aug 6, 2020 at 20:03 | comment | added | rugk | This should be the accepted answer. No need to use wc -l, grep has a built-in option to count things, and it is even named as obvious as -c for “count”! | |
| Jul 15, 2018 at 18:20 | history | edited | OJFord | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 42 characters in body |
| Jul 11, 2018 at 2:29 | comment | added | Steve Gore | I'm not sure you're actually checking it's only appearing once? All you're looking for there is that either one of those words exist at least once. | |
| Jan 13, 2017 at 13:20 | history | answered | OJFord | CC BY-SA 3.0 |