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Old 03-20-2013
Word counting perl script

Hi friends
i need a help on Perl Script
In My Home directory, i have some other directories and inside those directories i have some subdirectories and all the directories contains files.

Now i want to count a word in all files and i want the output like below
wordcount in which file(name of the file)
eg : 20 siva.txt
25 kumar.txt
30 fell.txt

please help me friends in this, i am strucking in this
# 2  
Old 03-20-2013
Using wc command
Code:
wc -c *

# 3  
Old 03-20-2013
Thank you very much

but it is giving total words count,

but i want to find the count for a perticular word.
# 4  
Old 03-20-2013
Code:
grep -c word *

# 5  
Old 03-20-2013
Sorry for disturbing you

grep -c word * is looking only for current directories, it is searching in subdirectories.

please help me

---------- Post updated at 02:01 AM ---------- Previous update was at 02:00 AM ----------

i am sorry, it is not searching subdirectories.
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Old 03-20-2013
Code:
find <path> -print | xargs grep -c word

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