command to count occurances of a string

MicahCarrick · 06-02-2007, 10:08 PM

I need a command that will count the occurances of the string "<FileDetails>" within a large text file. Anybody know if off the top of their heads?

Tinkster · 06-02-2007, 10:43 PM

Something like this should work ...

Code:

awk 'BEGIN{RS="$%^"}{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i ~ /<FileDetails>/){count++}}}END{print count}' file

Note that I've set the record-separator to a sequence of characters
not contained in my test-file.

Another approach:

Code:

grep -o '<FileDetails>' file |wc -l

Cheers,
Tink