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grep -o puts each occurrence in a separate line
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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grep -r PATTERN app/ | wc -l
because then grep returns one match per line.echo foo foo |grep -c foo
1 You can use sed to add newlines after your input string to put each on a line by itself, to count them accurately:grep -r foo app/ | sed -e 's/foo/&\n/g' |grep -c foo
grep -r PATTERN app/ | tr ' ' '\n' | wc -l
although as soon as you want to search for "Micheal Jackson" this approach fails and you have use eichin's approach.grep -ro PATTERN . | wc -l