@TTT

If you want to count the occurrences of the line “01:19:21” in a text file using a Linux command, you can use the following command:

grep -c "01:19:21" data.txt

This will output the number of lines in the file that contain “01:19:21”.

The command is attempting to filter and count the lines containing the string “01:19:21” in a text file or a stream of text.

$lines_of_text | grep 01:19:21

The previous cut | grep | wc still only counts lines, not word occurrences, and would consider “anthem,” “these,” etc matches for the substring “the.”

This is a way to do what you want-

# perl -lne '$c += () = /\bthe\b/g; END{ print $c }' YourFileGlob ListofFiles

@Thomas,

To count occurrence of word in Linux text file, you should use following command.

# cut -f 1 filename | grep -i "Yourword" | wc -l