Re: Counting specific elements in a XML object

On 3/30/06, Hans Meier (John Doe) <security.department@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gavin Bowlby am Donnerstag, 30. März 2006 21.45:
How about:

cat fn | grep <string to be searched for> | wc

When I posted a "cat | grep" the first (and last) time, several people got a
well known heart attack :-)

grep <string to be searched for> fn | wc

as a non-Perl approach to the problem...
[...]

Agreed, but OT here ;-)

Hans

If we are going to pick nits then it should be

grep -c "<employee>" fn
.

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