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Old 10-27-2010
egrep count question
Hello all,

I'm a first time poster and a unix/linux noob so please be understanding.

I am trying this command below:

[root@webfilter log]# egrep -c "Oct".+"Connect: ppp" /var/log/messages*
/var/log/messages:53
/var/log/messages.1:35
/var/log/messages.2:63
/var/log/messages.3:27
/var/log/messages.4:12

Is there any way to have this count totaled up as one number instead of showing the totals for each file as shown above?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

-Morrowtech
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Old 10-27-2010
Code:
cat /var/log/messages* | egrep -c "Oct".+"Connect: ppp"

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