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Earlier today morning, i was doing some analysis on how the distribution of output random method works for a design i am proposing to a customer.
While, working on the analysis, i came across a situation where i had a massive log file (custom log format) and had to find occurrences of 8 different types of strings to come to a conclusion.

While i cannot give details about the design and the problem i was working on, i definitely can help you with finding how many times a particular word or string appears in a file. The solution below assumes that you have the file and also have access to a UNIX server.

For the sake of clarity, in the example below, i have a file named “test-results1.log” and i want to find out how many times 1.1.1.8 appears in the file. For your own example, you must replace test-results1.log with your filename and 1.1.1.8 with the word/string you wish to find occurences for.

$  tr ‘ ‘ ‘\12′<test-results1.log |grep -cw 1.1.1.8

An example of the above command is shown below. Here i am creating a file called technofriends.log and entering some characters in it. Later, i will find the occurrences of “tes” (without quotes) in the file.

root@mercury:/db/xx/xx] cat technofriends.log
tes tes
dd fff
tes tes zzz

[root@mercury:/db/xx/xx] tr ‘ ‘ ‘\12′<technofriends.log|grep -cw tes
4
[root@mercury:/db/xx/xx]

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