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Old 05-23-2006
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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I'm not sure what the
Quote:
abc-xyz
abc = 0-999
xyz = 0-999
has to do with anything. but for your column of numbers try:

Code:
awk '
      {arr[$0]++}
      END { for(i in arr) 
              { print $i, arrr[i] }
      } '  filename > newfilename