On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 13:01, Mike Vanecek wrote: > I have a bash command that is essentially grep | sed | sort. It creates a file > of sorted records. What I would like to do next is create a report that lists > each unique item and its count. > > 1 > 1 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 3 > > would be > 1 - 3 > 2 - 1 > 3 - 2 > > Can this be done via a bash command and if yes, how? Otherwise, I would assume > it needs to be fed to a perl script? Type: man uniq In particular, the -c option will give you a good start a generating your final report. i.e. given the results of your script are stored in report.txt uniq -c report.txt 1 3 2 1 3 2 or better yet... your_script | uniq -c 1 3 2 1 3 2 Steve Cowles -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
