How do you count occurences of a string in a file? 1

[eholdo]

Tried using grep -c option to find the number of times a string is found in a text file, but this bypasses multiple occurences of the string on the same line.

Is there a way of capturing total matches of a string in a text file?

Thanks!
Erik

 

[olded]

Erik:

You might try awk (nawk in my case since I'm using Solaris 7). The global substitute command, gsub returns the number of substitiutions made in $0. I just cycle thru x.file counting the number made.

Regards,

Ed


string="test"
nawk -v str="$string" ' BEGIN { cnter=0 }
{
cnter+=gsub(str, "x&quot
}

END { printf("count is: %d\n", cnter) } ' x.file

 

[eholdo]

Great help. One question, the line I am reading is very long, and I'm getting a "too long" error. Any other way of accomplishing this with nawk or awk?

Thanks!!!
Erik

 

[olded]

Thanks Erik:

I've heard the GNU version of awk, gawk, doesn't have this problem. Maybe someone in this forum can verify that.

The GNU tools are available at

http://www.gnu.org

among other places.

Regards,


Ed

 

[piperent]

How about trying:

grep "string" file | wc

 

[abovebrd]

grep "string" file | wc -l -Danny
dan@snoboarder.net

 

[Guest_imported]

the last script can produce wrong out put for example
if in the file you have "*string*" this occurence will be counted too
try other thing.
good luck
-SimoYaz

 

[abovebrd]

Yes your right, it does depend on the "*string*" -Danny
dan@snoboarder.net