in reply to count of a word occurrence


1) read the file in a while loop,split and use a hash ($hash{$_}++ ).
2) use someting like the below for all unique entries in the first column.
grep 817 filename | wc -l
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Re: Re: count of a word occurrence
by jdporter (Paladin) on Mar 23, 2004 at 04:59 UTC
    That won't quite get it. Do 
    
    cut -f1 filename | sort | uniq -c

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