Is there a way to count the number of times a particular tag #win has appeared in my entire vault?
If in a note, this tag was used 7 times, it should be counted 7 times.
I am trying to use the dataview plugin but since I just discovered it 30 minutes ago, I didn’t have any luck so far.
This is not going to be something dataview is good at, I think. If you had a field in your note that said Wins:: 7, then it’d be great for dataview. Does Obsidian’s built-in search give you a results count? If you did an embedded search query for your tag can you get it to show all 7 reaults for a note?
Try this Dataview snippet.
```dataview
TABLE length(rows.file.name) as numfiles FROM "/"
flatten file.tags as tag group by tag
sort length(rows.file.name) desc limit 10
```
I thought the tags field only could detect a tag’s presence or absence in a file. OP wanted the tag counted multiple times if it was present multiple times in the aame file. Is there a count somewhere in the tags field that I’m not aware of?
@jwl Thanks, but it only shows in how many files, a tag has appeared. Not how many times a tag has appeared.
No and No.
I don’t think dataview indexes that data.
One idea I had was to use dataviewjs, get each file with tag #win, then read the file in JS and use regex to count how many times #win appears in the file. But I didn’t want to spend more time tweaking dataview.
In the end, I just wrote this one-line bash script that I would run when I want to count the tags. 
grep -r "#win" --exclude=tags.md ~/full/path/to/vault | wc -l
Sounds like a perfectly reasonable way to go!
Hopefully you can mark your script as the solution to this thread.
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