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...I guess the problem is that I'm not talking about the XXX being on a single line, but spread over the whole textfile!

Is this also possible with awk? Remember - I dunno the number of...

Hi radoulov, thanks for the really quick reply. I just tried your suggestion, but it just gives
input: XXX bla XXX foo XXX
output: 1 bla 1 foo 1

Hi Unix-Experts,

I have a textfile with several occurrences of some string XXX. I'd like to count all the occurrences and number them in reverse order.

E.g. input: XXX bla XXX foo XXX
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