On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 21:33, Timothy Pick wrote: > Chris Downie wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a text file that I need to count exactly how many times a > > particular character appears. Can someone offer me the correct grep > > syntax to achieve this? > > > > Cheers, > > Chris > > > grep a .xinitrc -o -c > seems to count how many a's in my .xinitrc file... > -c == count > -o == only the part of the line that matches
no, it counts the lines, if "a" is repeated in a line it is only counted once. I don't know the answer, but i don't believe thats it!
