On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Clive Standbridge <clive.standbri...@myriadgroup.com> wrote: > Eric Gerlach wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 04:11:03PM -0600, Brian Ryans wrote: >> > Quoting roberto on 2010-01-23 15:33:53: >> > > is there any linux built-in utilities to count how many times a >> > string >> > > occur in a text file ? >> > >> > I don't know of any actual utilities to do so, but there's a handy >> > little pipeline that I use as a generic string-counter that, so far, >> > works for all files I've tried, printable or not. >> > >> > $ strings $yourFile | grep -oe '$yourString' | wc -l
thank you, i'll test it soon -- roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
