Hi all, 



Can anyone tell me a unix command that will count the number of tab characters 
in a unix regular file?  I'm using the wc command to return bytes, lines, etc 
but now I need to count ONLY the tabs.  For some reason, I thought grep -c 
would work for me but forgot that that only returns the number of lines that 
have a tab character.  I could open the file sequentially and count but I need 
something that is fast fast fast. 



Thanks 
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