Re: tell me how many specific words there are in the file?

Pascal Bourguignon <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

nitrogenix.fusion@xxxxxxxxx writes:

Hi,

I'm trying to get the user to enter a word, then the script should
search for how many of that word exists in the file. For example, I
want it to say, "There are 7 'and' words in the file", or "There are 5
'the' words in the file" etc...

I have the following which I used to find a specific character, but I
need to change this round to find words instead.

tr -dc $char < text | wc -c

Thanks for your help.

man grep
man 7 regex

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a grep command that will
count multiple matches on the same line. Am I overlooking something?

--
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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