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

I would install the unix tools on your system (handy in any case :-), then it's really simple - look e.g. here:

Count the number of occurrences of a string using sed?

(Using awk:

awk '$1 ~ /title/ {++c} END {print c}' FS=: myFile.txt

).

You can get the Windows unix tools here:

http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/