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Still not fixed in GNU

edited May 10, 2018 at 6:40

With recent versions ofThis unfortunately does not work with GNU coreutils,.

grep -o -c WORD file

should work.If it works on your platform, it's an elegant and fairly intuitive solution; but (Earlier versions had a bug in this combination of options.)the GNU folks are still thinking.

With recent versions of GNU coreutils,

grep -o -c WORD file

should work. (Earlier versions had a bug in this combination of options.)

This unfortunately does not work with GNU coreutils.

grep -o -c WORD file

If it works on your platform, it's an elegant and fairly intuitive solution; but the GNU folks are still thinking.

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answered Feb 2, 2013 at 20:47

tripleee

With recent versions of GNU coreutils,

grep -o -c WORD file

should work. (Earlier versions had a bug in this combination of options.)