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grep -ro "pattern to find in files" "directory to recursively search" | grep -c "pattern to find in files"

This solution will count all occurrences even if there are multiple on one line.

-r recursively searches the directory

-o will "show only the part of a line matching PATTERN"

this is what splits up multiple occurences on a single line and makes grep print each match on a new line;

then pipe those newline-separated-results back into grep with -c to count the number of occurrences using the same pattern.

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