For instance, I have a file "a.xml". Inside this file it is just one line as
<queue><item><cause><item>
I want to find how many times <item>
occurs, and in this case it is 2.
However, if I run:
grep -c "<item>" a.xml
It will only give me 1 because grep stops as soon as it matches the first <item>
.
So the problem is how to use a simple shell/bash command that returns the number of times <item>
occurs?
You may try something like:
grep -o "<item>" a.xml | wc -l