count number of lines in terminal output

Question

couldn\'t find this on SO. I ran the following command in the terminal:

>> grep -Rl \"curl\" ./

and this displays the list of files wher

Answer 1

Putting the comment of EaterOfCode here as an answer.

grep itself also has the -c flag which just returns the count

So the command and output could look like this.

$ grep -Rl "curl" ./ -c
24

EDIT:

Although this answer might be shorter and thus might seem better than the accepted answer (that is using wc). I do not agree with this anymore. I feel like remembering that you can count lines by piping to wc -l is much more useful as you can use it with other programs than grep as well.