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Old 04-12-2004, 01:17 AM   #1
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Grep lines

Say I have a grep of a file.....how do I count how many lines came out in the grep? IE. how many lines had a hit......?

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Old 04-12-2004, 01:30 AM   #2
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pipe it through wc -l
 
  


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