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Counting total number of matches with grep instead of just how many lines match

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Mar 15, 202639881 views

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Does grep offer a way to count the total number of matches it makes? The -c option only returns the number of lines that matched the regex, but in this case I have multiple matches per line.

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try this: well, -E is just an example, it could be -P, -F etc. point is -o test:

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Counting total number of matches with grep instead of just how many lines match

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