Joseph,
Your clarification still leaves at least three possible
interpretations of what you want. If my following interpretations
are not correct, then please be very specific about exactly what you
want.
1). if you want only matched items listed instead of utterances
where they were found then try either one of these command:
freq +t%mor +s"*|give&PAST n|*" +f *.cha
freq +sm;give,&PAST^|n +f *.cha
2). if you want cumulative count of all matches and not number of
matches per file, then try either one of these command:
combo +t%mor +s"*|give&PAST^n|*" +f +u *.cha
freq +t%mor +s"*|give&PAST n|*" +f +u *.cha
freq +sm;give,&PAST^|n +f +u *.cha
3). if you simple want all output to go into just one file, then try
this command:
combo +t%mor +s"*|give&PAST^n|*" *.cha > outputfile.txt
Or any combination of above examples without +f and with ">
outputfile.cex"
Leonid.