How to find count of a particular word in Different Files in Unix

Question

How Do i Find Count of a particular word in Different Files in Unix:

I have: 50 file in a Directory (abc.txt, abc.txt.1,abc.txt.2, etc)

What I want: To Find number of instances of word 'Hello' in each file.

What I have used is grep -c Hello abc* | grep -v :0

It gave me result in Form of,

<<File name>>   : <<count>>

I want Output to be in a form

<<Date>>    <<File_Name>>   <<Number of Instances of word Hello in the file>>

1-1-2001     abc.txt              23
1-1-2014     abc.txt.19           57
2-5-2015     abc.txt.49           16

possible duplicate of [count all occurrences of string in lots of files with grep](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/371115/count-all-occurrences-of-string-in-lots-of-files-with-grep) — Jonathon Reinhart, Mar 16 '15 at 05:25
@AkshaySapra What about the date part? You haven't told us anything about the date part. Where is that data coming from? — Kusalananda, Jul 30 '16 at 17:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 16 '15 at 06:27

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You can use gnu awk >=4.0 (due to ENDFILE) to get the number.
If we know where the data comes from, I will add it.

awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) if ($i~/Hello/) a++} ENDFILE {print FILENAME,a;a=0}' abc.txt*

answered Mar 16 '15 at 06:27

Jotne

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 30 '16 at 17:23

### Sample code for you to tweak for your needs:
touch test.txt
echo "ravi chandran marappan 30" > test.txt                                                                                                                                     
echo "ramesh kumar marappan 24" >> test.txt
echo "ram lakshman marappan 22" >> test.txt
sed -e 's/ /\n/g' test.txt | sort | uniq | awk '{print "echo """,$1,
"""`grep -wc ",$1," test.txt`"}' | sh

Results:                          
22 -1                                                                                                                                                         
24 -1                                                                                                                                                         
30 -1                                                                                                                                                         
chandran -1                                                                                                                                                   
kumar -1                                                                                                                                                      
lakshman -1                                                                                                                                                   
marappan -3                                                                                                                         
ram -1                                                                                                                            
ramesh -1                                                                                                                       
ravi -1`

Is that actually supposed to be just one block of code? – Laurel Jul 30 '16 at 23:31 — Laurel, Jul 30 '16 at 23:31

How to find count of a particular word in Different Files in Unix

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