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Old 03-04-2008
count times for one string

I have a file. I want to count the time for one string appears in this file
Example:
56
73
34
79
90
56
34

Expected results
2:56
1:73
2:34
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Old 03-04-2008
Code:
sort myFile | uniq -c

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