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Old 05-17-2010
"group by" using shell script?

not sure if it's called "group by" , but what i'm going to do is like this:

i have a file below:

Code:
192.168.1.10
192.168.1.10
192.168.1.10
192.168.1.11
192.168.1.15
192.168.1.15
192.168.1.20
192.168.1.22

then i hope to get the result like this:

Code:
192.168.1.10 : 3
192.168.1.11 : 1
192.168.1.15 : 2
192.168.1.20 : 1
192.168.1.22 : 1

the number in second column is how many times it appears in the file.

1. use sort , and uniq to get how many unique record in this file
2. use grep with wc -l command to get how many times it appears

is there any better to do so ?? any advice?

Thanks.

Last edited by radoulov; 05-17-2010 at 08:12 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
# 2  
Old 05-17-2010
Something like this ?
Code:
$ awk '{count[$1]++}END{for(j in count) print j":"count[j]}' file.txt

# 3  
Old 05-17-2010
Jaduks awk solution does not sort the output as requested by the OP. This can be remedied by piping the output to sort.

You can do it completely within a shell. For example using ksh93 the following script
Code:
#!/bin/ksh93

typeset -A count

# create an associative array
while read ip
do
    (( count[$ip]++ ))
done < infile


# sort print the associative array
while (( 1 ))
do
   (( !${#count[@]} )) && break;
   k=(${!count[@]})
   for j in ${!count[@]}
   do
      (( ${count[$j]} > ${count[$k]} )) && k=$j
   done
   echo "$k : ${count[$k]}"
   unset count[$k]
done

and produces the following sorted list
Code:
192.168.1.10 : 3
192.168.1.15 : 2
192.168.1.20 : 1
192.168.1.11 : 1
192.168.1.22 : 1

Associate arrays are also supported in bash V4 but use a slightly different syntax.

Last edited by fpmurphy; 05-17-2010 at 03:24 PM..
# 4  
Old 05-17-2010
Here is another simple solution:
Code:
for i in $(cat file.txt)
do
  echo "$i: $(grep -c $i file.txt)"
done | sort -u

# 5  
Old 05-17-2010
sort file|uniq -c

although the output is different, but you could do, to get the desired format:

sort file|uniq -c|awk '{print $2 " : " $1}'
# 6  
Old 05-17-2010
sort in awk:

Code:
 awk '{count[$1]++}END{for(j in count) print j":"count[j] |"sort -t: -k2r"}' urfile

# 7  
Old 05-17-2010
I like shahhe's offering for quickest and most likely to become a one-liner, except that it needs one (or two) last tweak to get the sort requested by the OP:

Code:
for i in $(<file.txt)
do
  echo "$i: $(grep -c $i file.txt)"
done | sort -u -t. -k4

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