Ok i have researched this a little and coming across a few problems.
1. When this code is used.
Its doing a total word count and not a line by line echo with the line number then the amount of words.
2. so i tried this.
and still the wc is not going line by line im thinking it because wc is a built in function is this correct? if so what is an alternative i can use. Also with both word counts wc -w it is skipping the first line regardless of what is in it.
Thanks
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Example
from:
word
word word word
word word
word word word word
word
word word word
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I am trying to figure out to find word count of each word from my file
sample file
hi how are you
hi are you ok
sample out put
hi 1
how 1
are 1
you 1
hi 1
are 1
you 1
ok 1
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