in reply to sum of counts from unix grep -c

I like it.... You could do the whole thing in perl though, giving you more powerful regexes... 
%  perl -ne '$sum += /pattern/}{print $sum,$/' file1 file2 file3

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Or, perhaps something as evil as: 
% perl -lpe '$\+=/pattern/}{$\.=$/' file1 file2 file3

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-Blake

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(sacked) Re: Re: sum of counts from unix grep -c
by sacked (Hermit) on Jan 18, 2002 at 05:08 UTC
    Great! Thanks very much. I completely overlooked the fact that I could use Perl for counting.

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