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May 052012
 

Count the number of lines contain a specific string using grep

Answer:

Usually when you want to count the number of lines contain a specific string, it is easy with the grep command,

e.g.

# cat input.txt | grep foo | wc -l

But actually a more direct approach would be:

# cat input.txt | grep -c foo

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