Find/grep/wc command to find matching files, print filename and word count
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Also: wc isn't needed, grep alone can do all you want. Take a look at the grep manpage for the appropriate option (No straight up answer, just in case this is homework....).
Also: wc isn't needed, grep alone can do all you want. Take a look at the grep manpage for the appropriate option (No straight up answer, just in case this is homework....).
No homework, just trying to figure it out. Here is my second attempt:
Unfortunately, it outputs the matching line count for every file, not just the files with more than 0 matches.
I see I can use the -m NUM to suppress any line matches above a certain number. However, I need the opposite. I need to suppress any line matches under a certain number. This can only be done with the -v matching inversion, which won't work in my case as I still want to match a certain phrase.
I looked at it for quite a while. I don't see how an HTML file versus any other text file type would create a problem. Perhaps you can enlighten me.
Thanks!
Derek
HTML files have formatting tags as well as text, and the search algorithm will detect the search pattern in the tags as well as the text visible in a browser. There are ways to avoid this problem, but first one must recognize that it exists.
HTML files have formatting tags as well as text, and the search algorithm will detect the search pattern in the tags as well as the text visible in a browser. There are ways to avoid this problem, but first one must recognize that it exists.
I thought that is what you might be alluding to. I would consider that level of filtering to be above what I needed. Thanks for the tip though.
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