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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers View a file and count all words beginning with specificletter Post 303033126 by vbe on Saturday 30th of March 2019 12:35:03 PM
Old 03-30-2019
Smilie
If you are trying to learn what can be done by grep ( because others would suggest use sed or awk...)
As I only have my mac laptop at the moment this is what I would do if were to use only grep:
Code:
grep -i -e"^s" -e" s" -o TheAgileApproach.dat|wc -l

If you let me the time to try... I will come back with the result

Im back, result:
Code:
$ cat TheAgileApproach.dat
String Filter increment. The most basic implementation that can be used for all data types is shown on the far left. Each version to the right of that adds more functionality.

$ grep -ie"^s" -e" s" -o TheAgileApproach.dat|wc -l
       2


Addendum
If it works for you , to understand try little bit of the line at a time and see its output...

Last edited by vbe; 03-30-2019 at 01:47 PM.. Reason: addendum and typo...
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ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep invokes grep on compressed or gzipped files. These grep options will cause zgrep to terminate with an error code: (-[drRzZ]|--di*|--exc*|--inc*|--rec*|--nu*). All other options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is specified, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. EXIT CODE
2 - An option that is not supported was specified. AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), gzexe(1), gzip(1), zdiff(1), zforce(1), zmore(1), znew(1) ZGREP(1)
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