awk '{ 
     for (i=1;i<=NF;i++)
         if ( $i == "abc")
         c++
     }
END{
print c}' sample.txt

awk '
BEGIN {
RS=FS
}
{
if ( $0 ~ /abc/ )
   c++
}
END{
print c++
}' lsample.txt

Quote:

Originally Posted by cfajohnson Code: tr -cs 'A-Za-z' '\n' < FILE | grep -c "WORD"

This solution does not work.

Here is a sample file:

Code:

a aa aaa
aaa aa a
aaa aa a aaa aa a aaa

tr -cs 'A-Za-z' '\n' < FILE | grep -c "aaa"

#!/bin/ksh
typeset -i mCnt=0
mWord='aaa'
for mEach in `cat input_file`
do
  if [ "${mEach}" = "${mWord}" ]; then
    mCnt=${mCnt}+1
  fi
done
echo 'Total words for '${mWord}' = '${mCnt}