`grep -c` reports the number of matching lines--not the total number of times the pattern appears.

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 11:15 PM Helen Grubner <helen.grubner@fgznet.ch> wrote:
Dear Team



Can you tell me, why I see this with grep -c on a file with following
content?



$ cat file_13.txt

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13



$ grep -c 1 file_13.txt

5



Should it not show 6? When search for value 2, it is correct.



$ grep -c 3 file_13.txt

2





$ file file_13.txt

file_13.txt: ASCII text



Thank you

Alexander Grubner