UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

tr -cs A-Za-z\' '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | sort -k1,1nr -k2 | sed ${1:-100}q

1033 cow
999   the
998   family

awk ' {
       $0=tolower($0)
       for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) {arr[$(i)]++}
       }
       END {for (i in arr) {print arr[i], i  }}
     '  *National*  *International* *Health*  > wordcount.txt
     # this gives the top 500 most common words.  Work with the output file
     # to get what you want.
     sort -k1n wordcount.txt | tail -500

Last login: Mon Feb 27 20:01:48 on ttys000
AMIGA:barrywalker~> cd Desktop/Code/Shell
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> cat search.sh
#!/bin/sh
# search.sh $1
ls "$HOME"/*Sc* > /tmp/listing
echo "Do the 'grep -c \"$1\" /tmp/listing' file for $1..."
grep -c "$1" /tmp/listing
echo "Now do the same for each individual file."
while read -r line
do
	echo "Inside file $line."
	grep -c "$1" "$line"
done < /tmp/listing
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> 
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> 
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> ./search.sh Scope
Do the 'grep -c "Scope" /tmp/listing' file for Scope...
3
Now do the same for each individual file.
Inside file /Users/barrywalker/AudioScope.Manual.
62
Inside file /Users/barrywalker/AudioScope.config.
0
Inside file /Users/barrywalker/AudioScope.sh.
103
AMIGA:barrywalker~/Desktop/Code/Shell> _