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Old 07-14-2010
Search and find total count from multiple files
Please advice how can we search for a string say (abc) in multiple files and to get total occurrence of that searched string. (Need number of records that exits in period of time).

File look like this (read as filename.yyyymmdd)

a.20100101
b.20100108
c.20100115
d.20100122
e.20100129
f.20100204
f.20100211
....
....
z.20100429
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Old 07-14-2010
See man grep (in particular the -c / --count option).
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Old 07-14-2010
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Originally Posted by zooby
Please advice how can we search for a string say (abc) in multiple files and to get total occurrence of that searched string. (Need number of records that exits in period of time).

File look like this (read as filename.yyyymmdd)

a.20100101
b.20100108
c.20100115
d.20100122
e.20100129
f.20100204
f.20100211
....
....
z.20100429
Code:
grep -c abc ?.2010* | awk -F: '{count += $2} END {print "Total number of lines that contain abc = ",count}'

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