count lines in with 2 words

Question

I have a text file with many lines like -

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox did not jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox may jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox may not jumps over the lazy dog
anything can happen
nothing can happen

I want to get the count of occurrences in lines where both 'fox' and 'jumps' comes.

Tried grep -ci "$word1|word2' $file but this is not working

Answer 1

You can pipe grep to grep, only doing the count on the second instance of grep like so:

grep -i fox $file | grep -ci brown

Alternatively you can use egrep which is the same as grep -E, and use a regular expression:

egrep -ci 'fox.*brown|brown.*fox' $file

Answer 2

echo -e "fox:$(grep -c fox aaa)\njumps:$(grep -c jumps aaa)"

aaa : your file name

and your command wrong

grep -ci "fox\|jumpsa" aaa