roberto wrote at 2010-01-23 15:33 -0600: > is there any linux built-in utilities to count how many times a string > occur in a text file ?
grep "string" file | wc -l will give you the number of *lines* that contain a specific string. Only counts 1 if the string exists twice in a line, or 0 if it spans multiple lines.
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