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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting count number of files in a directory Post 302197874 by finalight on Wednesday 21st of May 2008 09:58:38 PM
Old 05-21-2008
then how do I count the number of files that has the word 'test'? assuming that the word only exist in the file once
 

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DICTFMT_INDEX2WORD(1)						Linux User's Manaul					     DICTFMT_INDEX2WORD(1)

NAME
dictfmt_index2word - Creates a .word index file from a DICTD database .index file SYNOPSIS
dictfmt_index2word [OPTIONS] [index_file] DESCRIPTION
dictfmt_index2word creates a word index file on stdout for the index file given on stdin or the command line. A word index file indexes each subword from the multi-word headwords of the .index file, to the underlying .dict file. A word index file is usually named <base- name>.word, but this is not mandatory as long as the proper name is used in the dictd configuration file. OPTIONS
--help displays a usage message and exits --locale locale use locale for sorting the .word file. If this option is omitted, the default locale "C" is used. index_file the .index file to be converted. AUTHOR
dictfmt_index2word was written by Aleksey Cheusov <vle@gmx.net>. This manual page was written by Robert D. Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>. SEE ALSO
dictd(8), dictfmt(1), dictfmt_index2suffix(1) LINUX
January 23, 2003 DICTFMT_INDEX2WORD(1)
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