simple shell problem
 

i can use grep -rhc to give me a list of the number of occurences of a regexp in the files in a directory, im wondering if anyone can tell me an easy way to sum it?

can't think of a really easy way using that command, but if you *don't* subtotal with the -c and pipe is all to, among a number of candidates, "wc -l" that will count *all* the lines.

ahh, hadnt thought of that, cheers