Count the number of occurrence of pattern in a file using Perl. perl -e '$_ = <>; print scalar ( () = m/needle/g ), "\n"' #Perl #Perloneliner #Count #Occurrence
Count the contigs length in index fasta file with samtools. $ awk '{s+=$2}END{print s}' scaffolds.fasta.fai #Fasta #Index #Length #Count #Size #Samtools