Count the number of times a word appears in a file

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What is an easy way to count the number of times a word appears in a file?

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Solution 1 - Linux

This will also count multiple occurrences of the word in a single line:

grep -o 'word' filename | wc -l

Solution 2 - Linux

cat filename | tr ' ' '\n' | grep 'word' | wc -l

Solution 3 - Linux

fgrep "word to be counted" filename|wc -w
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