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# 1  
Old 12-04-2006
Bug number of occurences of a string

hi,
I have a file where i need to count the occurences of a string ex) 'welcome to unix forum'. can anybody help me out
# 2  
Old 12-04-2006
try this


Code:
 awk '{print NF}' file_name

# 3  
Old 12-04-2006
hi srikanth,

This gives me the number of fields in each line of my file but my requirement is different

for ex) let usa ssume my file like this

nasa isro nasa
nasa nasa isro
isro nasa nasa

now i want to count all occurences of 'nasa' in the above file

'grep' is not a proper option coz it always gives the number of lines that the string 'nasa' is present in the file
# 4  
Old 12-04-2006
Do you have grep -o flag ?

Code:
grep -o "nasa" input.txt | wc -l

# 5  
Old 12-04-2006
Python alternative:
Code:
/usr/bin/python -c 'import re;print len(re.findall("nasa", open("file").read()))'

or

Code:
/usr/bin/python -c 'print open("file").read().count("nasa")'


Last edited by ghostdog74; 12-04-2006 at 04:25 AM..
# 6  
Old 12-04-2006
hi vino,

I don't find any grep -o option. can anyone give me UNIX code as python is not available in our development server.

Thanks in advance
# 7  
Old 12-04-2006
try this,

Code:
tr ' ' '\n' < txt | grep -cwi "pattern"


Last edited by matrixmadhan; 12-04-2006 at 05:35 AM.. Reason: generalization
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