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  • What about Wood * moretext? should be considered Wood as another occurrence? Or what about Wood buzz *? Wood buzz should be considered as another occurrence too> Commented Dec 8, 2022 at 0:46
  • After the star there is no more text. An occurence of 'Wood buzz *' should not count toward 'Wood'. It should be it's own product. 'Wood buzz' /= 'Wood' Commented Dec 8, 2022 at 0:52
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    If a product had no star in any file, say 'Lemon', should it be excluded from the output or should it be present as 'Lemon 0'? Commented Dec 8, 2022 at 3:55
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    If you want help writing a script to count occurrences of strings then provide sample input/output that has multiple occurrences of strings. If you want help writing a script that acts on the appearance or absence of some string/character (e.g. *) then provide sample input/output that includes some lines that do and some that don't have that string/character. We can't test a potential solution using the example you provided where every string from the input appears in the output, there's only 1 occurrence of each string you want counted, and the output counts don't come from the input. Commented Dec 8, 2022 at 12:17
  • Please edit your question and clarify: Can there be stars at any other position? Commented Dec 8, 2022 at 18:44