From 39744a0def8526ee56f9c93c672b4477e6634f59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbranchaud <jbranchaud@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 21:18:22 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add Count The Number Of Matches In A Grep as a unix til

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 README.md                                     |  3 +-
 unix/count-the-number-of-matches-in-a-grep.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 unix/count-the-number-of-matches-in-a-grep.md

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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pairing with smart people at Hashrocket.
 
 For a steady stream of TILs, [sign up for my newsletter](https://tinyletter.com/jbranchaud).
 
-_1127 TILs and counting..._
+_1128 TILs and counting..._
 
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@@ -1047,6 +1047,7 @@ _1127 TILs and counting..._
 - [Configure cd To Behave Like pushd In Zsh](unix/configure-cd-to-behave-like-pushd-in-zsh.md)
 - [Copying File Contents To System Paste Buffer](unix/copying-file-contents-to-system-paste-buffer.md)
 - [Copying Nested Directories With Ditto](unix/copying-nested-directories-with-ditto.md)
+- [Count The Number Of Matches In A Grep](unix/count-the-number-of-matches-in-a-grep.md)
 - [Create A File Descriptor with Process Substitution](unix/create-a-file-descriptor-with-process-substitution.md)
 - [Curl With Cookies](unix/curl-with-cookies.md)
 - [Curling For Headers](unix/curling-for-headers.md)
diff --git a/unix/count-the-number-of-matches-in-a-grep.md b/unix/count-the-number-of-matches-in-a-grep.md
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+# Count The Number Of Matches In A Grep
+
+My go to way of counting the number of matches in a `grep` of a file is to pipe
+it to another command — `wc`.
+
+Here is what that looks like with the README for [this
+repo](https://github.com/jbranchaud/til). This counts the number of lines that
+start with `###`.
+
+```bash
+$ grep '^###' README.md | wc -l
+      48
+```
+
+When `wc` is used with the `-l` flag, it gives a count of the number of lines.
+In this case the number of `grep` matches that get piped to it.
+
+There is another way to do this solely with the `grep` command — using the `-c`
+flag.
+
+```bash
+$ grep -c '^###' README.md
+48
+```
+
+When you include the `-c` (or `--count`) flag with `grep`, instead of the
+matches being output, the count of the matches is output.
+
+See `man grep` for more details.