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Old 06-26-2008
Sorting using count, grep and count

Hi,

I trying to sort information in a file by making count for every object. For example:
A
B
A
D
A
B
C

i would like to sort out count for each object (A's, B's and etc) but in actual case i dont know the object but i know the position ofthe object. do i need to use array as well? Any help would be great.
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Old 06-27-2008
check if this is what you want:
Code:
sort filename | uniq -c

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Old 06-27-2008
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