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Old 08-13-2008
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Hi there!

I have 150 txt files named chunk1, chunk2, ........., chunk150. I have a second file called string.txt with more than 1000 unique strings, house, dog, cat ... I want to know which command I should use to count how many times each string appears in the 150 files.

I have tried with a grep -c dog chunk* but then I get the count of all of the files and I have to do it separately for each of the strings.

The ideal solution would be an output saying:

dog 45
cat 69
house 92
song 45

Thanks a lot in advance.

Kind regards,
Pep
# 2  
Old 08-13-2008
Code:
cat chunk* > tmp.tmp
awk '   FILENAME=="string.txt" { arr[$0]=0 }
        FILENAME=="tmp.tmp"  { for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {
             if ($i in arr) {arr[$i]++} 
        }}        
        END { for (i in arr) { print i, arr[i]}} ' string.txt tmp.tmp

# 3  
Old 08-14-2008
Jim,

Thanks a lot for the quick answer but when running it I got the following error.

awk: syntax error near line 3
awk: illegal statement near line 3
awk: syntax error near line 5
awk: bailing out near line 5

Do you know whether there is something wrong?
Thanks
Pep
# 4  
Old 08-14-2008
Hi.

Most versions of grep can handle a file of patterns, so that standard *nix utlities can be used:
Code:
#!/bin/bash -

# @(#) s3       Demonstrate string count total from files.

echo
echo "(Versions displayed with local utility \"version\")"
version >/dev/null 2>&1 && version =o $(_eat $0 $1) grep sort uniq
set -o nounset
echo

echo " strings file:"
cat strings

echo
echo " data files" data* ":"
cat -n data*

echo
echo " Results:"
grep -h -f strings data* |
sort |
uniq -c

exit 0

Producing:
Code:
% ./s3

(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
Linux 2.6.11-x1
GNU bash 2.05b.0
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1
sort (coreutils) 5.2.1
uniq (coreutils) 5.2.1

 strings file:
dog
horse
cat

 data files data1 data2 data3 data4 :
     1  File 1
     2  monkey
     3  cat
     4  dog
     5  dog
     6  File 2
     7  horse
     8  sawhorse
     9  Files 3
    10  cat
    11  horse
    12  witch
    13  seven
    14  File 4
    15  spider
    16  hoarse
    17  horse
    18  horse
    19  horse
    20  cat

 Results:
      3 cat
      2 dog
      5 horse
      1 sawhorse

The files are filtered for the lines that contain strings of interest. Then, in order to count with uniq, we need to sort the result.

If you need better filtering, you may need to change the patterns in the strings file, or -- in some versions of grep -- use the "word" option "-w".

Adjust as necessary for your environment according to your man pages ... cheers, drl
# 5  
Old 08-15-2008
Thanks a lot it is working now!

Kind regards,

Pep
 
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