in reply to how to search for a string in large file?

Linux:
  grep -c "string" Very-large.file

Win:
   find /C "string" File-name.txt

Perl:
    perl -ne "$x++ if m/string/}{print qq|$x\n|" Large-file.txt
   (Change to single quote for Linux)

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