[geeks] text file processing

[Scotty Logan]

On Jan 6, 2004, at 10:27 AM, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Anybody know how to run a text file through some sort of processor and 
> find
> the most-used strings or words?

Something like this?

% tr -Cs '[:alnum:]' '\012' < textfile | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | 
sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20

   Scotty

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