Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files

[Stephen Harris <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:34:58AM -0800, S Mathias wrote:
> I just can't google for it:

I'm a little concerned about the number of "schoolbook" questions showing
on this list, recently.  However...

> echo "word1 word2 word3" > one/asf.txt
> echo "word2 word4, word5" > one/asfcxv saf.txt

Yeah, that line won't work like you think.

> $ SOMEMAGIC > output.txt

I'd do something like
  cat */* | tr -c '[:alpha:]' '\012' | grep -v '^$' | sort | uniq -c

If more than just one layer of subdirs, replace the "cat */*" with
  find . -type f -exec cat {} \;

-- 

rgds
Stephen
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