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grep -c question

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From: Phillip Feldman <phillip.m.feldman <at> gmail.com>
To: helen.grubner <at> fgznet.ch
Cc: 33574 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, alexander.grubner <at> fgznet.ch
Subject: bug#33574: grep -c question
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 00:03:11 -0800

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`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 <at> fgznet.ch>
wrote:

> Dear Team
>
>
>
> Can you tell me, why I see this with grep -c on a file with following
> content?
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> $ cat file_13.txt
>
> 1
>
> 2
>
> 3
>
> 4
>
> 5
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> 6
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> 7
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> 8
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> 9
>
> 10
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> 11
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> 12
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> 13
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> $ grep -c 1 file_13.txt
>
> 5
>
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> Should it not show 6? When search for value 2, it is correct.
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> $ grep -c 3 file_13.txt
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> 2
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> $ file file_13.txt
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> file_13.txt: ASCII text
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> Thank you
>
> Alexander Grubner
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>
>

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