how would i write a shell script to show the number of lines in which int variable appears in a c++ program.

weeelll

will tell you how many lines contain at least one int

probably better is something like:

i.e. create list of words, one per line, then do the count...

thanks

but how would i do this using cut or awk methods is it possbile and having a output similar to this

x, number of apperances =
y, number of apperances =

I'm not sure if this is what you want, but here's one possible method to get the counts for several different words within a file:

(add a -i after the egrep for case-insensitivity)

ShawnMilo