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Adam K Dean
Adam K Dean

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Count occurrences with grep

Today I learnt that grep has a '-c' switch that counts occurrences. I'll never pipe it to 'wc -l' again!

$ ps aux | grep -c adam
93
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But if we use wc, we would also need to trim it:

$ ps aux | grep adam | wc -l
        94
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So, use -c.

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