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Old 07-07-2010
count identical strings print last row and count

I have a sorted file like:

Code:
Apple 3
Apple 5
Apple 8
Banana 2
Banana 3
Grape 31
Orange 7
Orange 13

I'd like to search $1 and if $1 is not the same as $1 in the previous row print that row and print the number of times $1 was found.

so the output would look like:

Code:
Apple 8 3
Banana 3 2
Grape 31 1
Orange 13 2

I'm very new and don't have any useful code suggestions. I would guess the logic should be about counting and then comparing the count to the previous count.

Last edited by vgersh99; 07-07-2010 at 11:04 AM.. Reason: code tags, PLEASE!
# 2  
Old 07-07-2010
Code:
nawk '{a[$1]=$2;c[$1]++}END{for(i in a) print i,a[i],c[i]}' myFile

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Old 07-07-2010
Thanks so much - works great Smilie
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