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06-22-2003, 05:33 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Lancaster, England
Distribution: Debian Etch, OS X 10.4
Posts: 1,263
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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?
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06-22-2003, 05:41 PM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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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.
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06-22-2003, 05:44 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Lancaster, England
Distribution: Debian Etch, OS X 10.4
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ahh, hadnt thought of that, cheers
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