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Old 09-15-2011
Help with wordcount
Hi, this is my first post so bare with me


I have a file which I want to count the amounts of the same line in the file and display by using a shell script

for example

file1
Code:
apple
apple
apple.
bananas

i would like the output to be
Code:
apple 2
apple. 1
bananas 1

however, i need this script to be flexible as it will not always be counting the same things
is this possible?

Thanks for any help you can give
Last edited by radoulov; 09-15-2011 at 12:36 PM.. Reason: Code tags!
# 2  
Old 09-15-2011
Try:

Code:
sort infile | uniq -c

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Old 09-16-2011
Thanks alot for that it worked a treat Smilie
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