Chas Owens wrote:
If we are going to pick nits then it should be
grep -c "<employee>" fn
Note that grep -c counts matching *lines*. There is no formal
requirement that these elements appear on separate lines.
Here's a slightly more complex Perl one-liner that counts *occurences*
perl -lne '$n++ for /<employee>/g; END {print $n}' somefile.xml
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