Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to go through files in a folder and names that match write to a new file and have counts of the seperate names. fairly new to scripting and know what I want but do not know how to script it. example of what I need follows

PACKAGE='ls -A1 | tr -s '-' '^' | cut -f2 -d"^" | sort -n'
loop through packages spliting up and totals
COUNT=0
for NAME in PACKAGE

1st time
save name

do
if curr name same as prev name
count
save name
if different name
total count
send count and prev name to file
reset count
done



Example DATA:

PKG.Mortgage3DayDisclosure
PKG.Mortgage3DayDisclosure
PKG.Mortgage3DayDisclosure

***total****

PKG.MortgageAppraisalDelivery
PKG.MortgageAppraisalDelivery
PKG.MortgageAppraisalDelivery

***total****

PKG.MortgageCommitment
PKG.MortgageCommitment

***total****

PKG.MortgageCreditScoreDisclosure
PKG.MortgageCreditScoreDisclosure
PKG.MortgageCreditScoreDisclosure
PKG.MortgageCreditScoreDisclosure
PKG.MortgageCreditScoreDisclosure
PKG.MortgageCreditScoreDisclosure
PKG.MortgageCreditScoreDisclosure
PKG.MortgageCreditScoreDisclosure
PKG.MortgageCreditScoreDisclosure

***total****

PKG.MortgageDeclination
PKG.MortgageDeclination
PKG.MortgageDeclination
PKG.MortgageDeclination

***total****

hopefully this makes sense......

Code:

ls -A1 | tr -s '-' '^' | cut -f2 -d"^" | sort -n | 
 awk '{arr[$0]++} END {for(i in arr) { print i, arr[i]}} ' > newfile

By total I assume you meant a file count. If you need to sum values we need file layout information.

awesome! this works for the most part but how do you have the totals print on the following line versus the same line as the the file name?

---------- Post updated at 02:38 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:27 PM ----------

Had another question also.... need to pull from a range of dates (ex. 6:00 AM March 3 through 6:00 AM March 4) from a folder (same folder as prev question) and put those file names in a new file to process later. Dates would not be hard dates but dates from the folder directory, how would I do that?

---------- Post updated at 03:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:38 PM ----------

I figured out how to put totals on a new line... Thanks for your help Jim.... that was awesome!!!