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I need to search for two patterns in a file and find number of matching lines.

Code:

find . -type f | xargs grep "DROP TABLE" | wc -l
find . -type f | xargs grep "DROP SYNONYM" | wc -l

The above code works. However I am looking at finding a commnd that will simplify as on a singe command i can get the result. So that i can have Total number of given two patterns matching lines.

Example :
count of "pattern 1 matching lines" + count of "pattern 2 matching lines"

Code:

find . -type f | xargs egrep "DROP TABLE|DROP SYNONYM" | wc -l

No need for wc!
grep and egrep can count lines themselves

Code:

egrep -c ...