How to find the number of occurrences of a string in file using windows command line?

Question

I have a huge files with e-mail addresses and I would like to count how many of them are in this file. How can I do that using Windows\' command line ?

I have tried

Answer 1

Using what you have, you could pipe the results through a find. I've seen something like this used from time to time.

findstr /c:"@" mail.txt | find /c /v "GarbageStringDefNotInYourResults"

So you are counting the lines resulting from your findstr command that do not have the garbage string in it. Kind of a hack, but it could work for you. Alternatively, just use the find /c on the string you do care about being there. Lastly, you mentioned one address per line, so in this case the above works, but multiple addresses per line and this breaks.