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I wanted to add a \ to the code snippet so it could be copied and pasted, but there's an 8 character minimum on edits, so I removed the spaces and CR instead. EXTRA: you can divide lines on pipes, and the shell will understand

edited Jan 14, 2017 at 22:24

grochmal

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I would use tr instead of awk:

echo "Lorem ipsum dolor sit sit amet et cetera." |
tr '[:space:]' '[\n*]' |
grep -v "^\s*$" |
sort |
uniq -c |
sort -bnr

tr just replaces spaces with newlines
grep -v "^\s*$" trims out empty lines
sort to prepare as input for uniq
uniq -c to count occurrences
sort -bnr sorts in numeric reverse order while ignoring whitespace

wow. it turned out to be a great command to count swear-per-lines

find . -name "*.py" -exec cat {} ; | tr '[:space:]' '[\n*]' | grep -v "^\s*$" | sort | uniq -c | sort -bnr | grep fuck

answered May 20, 2012 at 11:46

seler