[Gllug] sort & uniq

[Christian Smith]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Daniel Andersson wrote:

>> Dear Daniel,
>> 
>> You probably want the following.
>> 
>>     sort -n file | uniq -c | sort -n
>> 
>> The first sort is numeric and you may wish to choose a
>> delimiter.  The uniq command counts occurrences.  The second
>> sort ranks the numbers according to their frequency.
>
>tried that
>same result, two instances of 225 in the result :o/
>
>the file i'm 'playing' with is
>http://daniel.septum.org/testfile.txt

The file has one of the 225's terminated with a "\r\n". The \r is being 
included as part of the line in the comparison. I make it line 116612.


>
>i can't find anything odd with any of the 225's..
>
>thanks for the help
>
>/ d
>
>

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