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Peter Wood
Peter Wood

Reputation: 31

How can I know how many times a word is in a file using grep?

I have a file and I want to know how many times does a word is inside that file.(NOTE: A row can have the same word)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 92

Answers (4)

clt60
clt60

Reputation: 63974

Yes, i know you want a grep solution, but my favorite perl with the rolex operator can't missing here... ;)

perl -0777 -nlE 'say $n=()=m/\bYourWord\b/g' filename
#                              ^^^^^^^^

if yoy want match the YourWord surrounded with another letters like abcYourWordXYZ, use

perl -0777 -nlE 'say $n=()=m/YourWord/g' filename

Upvotes: 0

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195289

awk solution:

awk '{s+=gsub(/word/,"&")}END{print s}' file

test:

kent$  cat f
word word word
word
word word word

kent$  awk '{s+=gsub(/word/,"&")}END{print s}' f
7

you may want to add word boundary if you want to match an exact word.

Upvotes: 0

suspectus
suspectus

Reputation: 17288

Use the grep -c option to count the number of occurences of a search pattern.

grep -c searchString file

Upvotes: 0

Amilcar Andrade
Amilcar Andrade

Reputation: 1171

You can use this command. Hope this wil help you. 

grep -o yourWord file | wc -l

Upvotes: 4

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