With three ways to count specific words in a Word document, you’re bound to find at least one that you like. Susan Harkins shows you how.

Linux includes a number of ways for counting lines, words and characters in text and for making modifications that help count the words. Some are just a bit more complex than others.

Similarly, the grep command can be used with wc to count the occurrences of a specific word in a file. If you wanted to count the number of times 'Linux' appears in 'file1', you would use grep -o ...