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Just a remark: this assumes that you don't have other dots in file names as for example a.b.c.txt.

jimmij
– jimmij

2014-11-07 13:17:57 +00:00
Commented Nov 7, 2014 at 13:17
I'd like to offer substitute sort and wc by grep -o "\..\{,4\}$" | uniq -c

Costas
– Costas

2014-11-07 13:48:56 +00:00
Commented Nov 7, 2014 at 13:48
Well, one can replace sort and wc with rev | cut -d. -f1 | rev | uniq -c or even use finds exec option to directly execute awk -F"." '{print $NF}' and then pipe results to uniq -c.

mkalkov
– mkalkov

2014-11-07 14:24:39 +00:00
Commented Nov 7, 2014 at 14:24

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