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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Count common elements in a column Post 302879580 by CarloM on Friday 13th of December 2013 08:04:57 AM
Old 12-13-2013
How about awk?

Code:
awk '{a[$1]++} END {for (i in a) { print i OFS a[i] }}' file


EDIT: If you have a lot of different values then you might run into memory issues with that (which zozoo's solution should avoid).
 

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db2_field_scale

DB2_FIELD_SCALE(3)							 1							DB2_FIELD_SCALE(3)

db2_field_scale - Returns the scale of the indicated column in a result set

SYNOPSIS

       int db2_field_scale (resource  $stmt, mixed  $column)

DESCRIPTION

	Returns the scale of the indicated column in a result set.

PARAMETERS

	      o $stmt
		- Specifies a statement resource containing a result set.

	      o $column
		-  Specifies  the  column in the result set. This can either be an integer representing the 0-indexed position of the column, or a
		string containing the name of the column.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns an integer containing the  scale  of  the  specified  column.  If  the	specified  column  does  not  exist  in  the  result  set,
       db2_field_scale(3) returns FALSE.

SEE ALSO

       db2_field_display_size(3), db2_field_name(3), db2_field_num(3), db2_field_precision(3), db2_field_type(3), db2_field_width(3).

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