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Old 01-27-2014
Count frequency of unique values in specific column
Hi, I have tab-deliminated data similar to the following:

Code:
dot is-big 2
dot is-round 3
dot is-gray 4
cat is-big 3
hot in-summer 5

I want to count the frequency of each individual "unique" value in the 1st column. Thus, the desired output would be as follows:

Code:
dot 3
cat 1
hot 1

is there an
Code:
awk

that could help me out with this?
Thank you!
# 2  
Old 01-27-2014
Code:
$ awk '{A[$1]++}END{for(i in A)print i,A[i]}' file

hot 1
cat 1
dot 3

# 3  
Old 01-27-2014
Hello,

Here is the solution for same.

Code:
awk '{a[$1]++;} END{for(i in a) print a[i]"  "i}' file_name

Output will be as follows.

Code:
1  hot
3  dot
1  cat



Thanks,
R. Singh
# 4  
Old 01-27-2014
try.

Code:
cut -f1 -d" " file | uniq -c
      3 dot
      1 cat
      1 hot

or with awk as requested

Code:
awk -F" " '{print $1}' tmp1 | uniq -c
      3 dot
      1 cat
      1 hot

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# 5  
Old 01-27-2014
That would work only with the keywords in contiguous lines.
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# 6  
Old 01-27-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
That would work only with the keywords in contiguous lines.
yes, thank you,,, there should be
Code:
| sort

for non-contiguous keywords.
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