How can I format my grep output to show line numbers at the end of the line, and also the hit count?

Question

I\'m using grep to match string in a file. Here is an example file:

example one,
example two null,
example three,
example four null,

grep

Answer 1

use grep -n -i null myfile.txt to output the line number in front of each match.

I dont think grep has a switch to print the count of total lines matched, but you can just pipe grep's output into wc to accomplish that:

grep -n -i null myfile.txt | wc -l