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write a shell script that counts a number of unique word
contained in the file and print them in alphabetical order
line by line?

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write a shell script that counts a number of unique word contained in the file and print them in a..

Answer / arup

#!/bin/csh
# Here tr -s ' ' replaces all multiple ' ' with single ' '
# next pipe the above stream to replace each ' ' with '\n'
# next pipe the above stream to get a sorted list of words
# then pipe the unique words to outfile
tr -s ' ' < $1 | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq > $1.out

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write a shell script that counts a number of unique word contained in the file and print them in a..

Answer / phani

cat filename | uniq -u | sort -n

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write a shell script that counts a number of unique word contained in the file and print them in a..

Answer / neennii

sort -u wordtestfile.txt | tee outuniquefile.txt | echo "total unique words are" `wc -w` ; cat outuniquefile.txt

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write a shell script that counts a number of unique word contained in the file and print them in a..

Answer / sathish kumar p

cat << file name >> | uniq | sort -n

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write a shell script that counts a number of unique word contained in the file and print them in a..

Answer / trenton g. twining

rm /tmp/$$; \
cat <file> \
| awk '{ for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){ printf("%s\n",$i); }; }' \
| sort -du \
| tee /tmp/$$; \
wc -w /tmp/$$ \
| sed -e "s=/tmp/$$=unique words="

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write a shell script that counts a number of unique word contained in the file and print them in a..

Answer / manuswami

$ rm -f res res1 ; while read line ; do cat uniqtest | grep
-wc $line >>res1 ; echo "$line :-> Count=" >>res ;done <uni
qtest ; paste res res1 >final_temp ; cat final_temp|sort -u
>final ; rm -f res res1 final_temp1

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