post  counting word in a file using shell script

reachvimalm (11)   Link to this post
How would you count word in file. remember you can't use grep with wc because it won't count word coming twice in same line.
Bazzy (4111)   Link to this post
Why are you asking this in a C++ forum?
writetonsharma (832)   Link to this post
I can do it in perl.. :D
chrisname (2545)   Link to this post
I can do it in Python... :D
Bazzy (4111)   Link to this post
I can do it in Brainfuck!
No, I can't D:
computerquip (876)   Link to this post
LOLCODE ftw.

And I've never used wc. What does it do?
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chrisname (2545)   Link to this post
Counts words, chars or lines in a file or files. At first I thought it only accepted one file; so I wrote my own version.

Two hours later I man'd it and discovered I was wrong...
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computerquip (876)   Link to this post
so wouldn't "cat <filename> | wc" work?
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chrisname (2545)   Link to this post
No idea... I've not delved very deep into the shell yet. I'm still trying to scratch the surface out of the way so I can get to the softer core.
Grey Wolf (1609)   Link to this post
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#! /bin/sh
# Read a text stream on standard input, and output a list of 
# the n (default: 25) most frequently occurring words and
# their frequency count, in order of descending counts, on
# standard output.
#
# Usage:
#             wf [n]

tr -cs A-Za-z\' '\n' |
  tr A-Z a-z |
    sort |
      uniq -c |
        sort -k1,1nr -k2 |
          sed ${1:-25}q

./wf 10 < testdoc 
4 a
   4 i
   4 the
   3 queue
   3 to
   2 am
   2 global
   2 is
   2 within
   1 and


reachvimalm (11)   Link to this post
amazing 'Grey wolf'. but its too complex. I tried it and it works. can't there be better solution. an easy one. ;)
Grey Wolf (1609)   Link to this post
Ooops, misread your requirements, for some reason I thought you wanted to count how many of each individual word there are.

Edit:
Actually I'm not sure what your exact requirements are, can you elucidate?
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reachvimalm (11)   Link to this post
you have done better than needed.
e.g.
"white dog may or may not run fast.
It may rain today."
here "may" comes twice in same line and once in other line. I just want to find out how many counts of "may" are.

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