[Gllug] sort & uniq

Robert McKay rm at createservices.com
Tue Aug 5 15:42:50 UTC 2003


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

Just adding to the spam... :)

[rm at paqovicuna mail]$ lynx -source http://daniel.septum.org/testfile.txt |
cat -A | sort | uniq -c | grep 225
 130105 225$
      1 225^M$
[rm at paqovicuna mail]$

-Robert.

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