With a modern grep version it is even more simple: grep -c 'the' /path/to/file.txt
I'm to lazy to look up when this feature was introduced. It works at least with grep version 2.9. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
