use a perl one-liner to count the number of matches on the command-line
May 13th, 2008 by Lawrence David
let’s say you’ve got a string and you’d like to count the number of times some substring appears in it. let’s also assume that you’re lazy and you don’t want to leave your shell terminal to do it. fortunately, there’s an easy way to count string matches from the command-line using a perl one-liner. let’s say we want to count the number of commas in the text file my_file.txt. all you need to write is:
$ perl -nle ‘print tr/,/,/;’ < my_file.txt
Stumble it!
