Thread: find string in line

Originally Posted by Salem

Something suitably cryptic...
$ perl -n -e '$n = ( $_ =~ s/grow//g );print "$n\n";'
old#<grown or young><growup
2
grow grow grow
3

Thank you for your answer.I have a few questions..
Is this suitable for a bash script?
Also I only want the substring <grow
If there's a mere grow without the < in the front I dont want to count it.