I have what seems to be a relatively simple problem on my hands, hoping a fellow monk can enlighten me.
I have a file with thousands of entries, lots of duplicates, in seemingly random order and numbers. I want to report on the number of times it finds something.
Example, if 'blah' occurs in the file 8 times, I would like to see printed "blah = 8"
Its just a 1 columned file, but I want all found entries to be reported
Foo, bar, none, with a matching number to the times it occured.
I've tried making arrays, and count++ each time, but its doesn't appear to be doing it per item, just on each line

Does anyone have an idea of how to accomplish this?

In reply to Reporting entries in a file by SkullOne

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