I want to use grep -c to get the count of the number of occurances of a pattern in a text file. The result should be just a number, but if the number is “0,” AppleScript considers it an error (if it’s anthing other than 0, it returns the result as expected). I’m getting around this by puting the code in a Try block, but that method seems clunky:
try
set x to do shell script "grep -c MyString /path/to/MyFile.txt"
on error
set x to "0"
end try
Any other way? Thanks.