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bash sort strings by frequency

Charles-Alexandre Roy answered on February 22, 2022 Popularity 1/10 Helpfulness 8/10

answer bash sort strings by frequency

bash sort strings by frequency

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# Basic syntax:
cat your_file | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
# Where:
#	- you can replace cat your_file with any command that produces output
#		you want to sort in this way
#	- sort sorts the input it gets from the upstream command and sorts it in
#		alphanumeric order
#	- uniq -c counts the number of occurrences of each line
#	- sort -nr sorts the input it gets numerically in reverse order (high to
#		low)
# Note, you have to sort before passing to uniq -c because uniq -c counts
#	adjacent lines that are identical (and resets the count if they aren't)

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