How to count the occurences of a specific word in a file in bash shell

mskart · #1 (**permalink**) 10-30-2008

Hello,

I want to count the occurences of a specific word in a .txt file in bash shell.

Can somebody help me pleaze??

Thanks!!!

jim mcnamara · #2 (**permalink**) 10-30-2008

Code:

tr -s ' ' '\n' < myfile.txt | grep -c 'searchword'

mskart · #3 (**permalink**) 10-30-2008

Thanks a lot it really works!

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