bug#33574: grep -c question

[Phillip Feldman]

`grep -c` reports the number of matching lines--not the total number of
times the pattern appears.

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 11:15 PM Helen Grubner <address@hidden>
wrote:

> Dear Team
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> Can you tell me, why I see this with grep -c on a file with following
> content?
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> $ cat file_13.txt
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> 1
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> 2
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> 3
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> 4
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> 5
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> 6
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> 7
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> 8
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> 9
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> 10
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> 11
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> 12
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> 13
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> $ grep -c 1 file_13.txt
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> 5
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> Should it not show 6? When search for value 2, it is correct.
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> $ grep -c 3 file_13.txt
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> 2
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> $ file file_13.txt
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> file_13.txt: ASCII text
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> Thank you
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> Alexander Grubner
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