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count the number of phone number

grep -E "[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{7}" ./test/* | wc -l

show the filename which contain the phone number

grep -lE "[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{7}" ./test/*
-E activates regular expressions (you could use egrep instead)
-l filters grep results, only the file name will be printed
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