UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Tom
Anne
James
...

cat main.file | tr -d '[:punct:]' | tr ' ' '\n' | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r > file01.txt

155 the
100 a
55  this
34  Anne
5   James

0
34
5

for name in `cat accept.txt ` 
do 
grep $name file01.txt;
done

#!/bin/ksh

ls file* | sort | tr '\n' '\t' | sed 's/^/\t/g'
echo ""

for name in `cat accept.txt`
do
printf "${name}"
  for i_file in `ls file* | sort`
  do  
    count=`grep -c "${name}" "${i_file}"`
    printf "\t${count}"
  done
echo""
done