Counting the occurence of a word in a collection of files in Linux

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Published on 2010-06-16T15:04:42Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 15:13 UTC
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I am trying to find the word count of a specific word in a collection of documents, in Linux.

I have tried with grep and ack-grep in combination with wc but I can't seem to come up with a valid combination of pipes :)

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