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Old 03-02-2006
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Originally Posted by gauravgoel
Hi Vino,

With due regards, I would like to say that the above may not solve the problem, OP is having. He is looking for no. of occurence of a character in a string. And the above command will give always give output as 1 if there is one or more than one occurence of "r"
Kindly correct me if I am wrong

Gaurav
You are right. It gives 1. -c gives a count of the number of lines where the character occurs.

Good catch.