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Number of lines containing a certain string
Hey I want to know if there is an option to know the number of lines containing a certain string (bit for example) in a file? Say I want to know number of lines containing only the string BIT in file xyz. I know how to get number of lines in a file by using wc -l but how do you get number of lines containing a string in a file?
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try this.. there are many other ways to do this using sed awk etc...
Code:
grep -c "pattern" filename

 
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