in reply to opinion - enormous input files

If on *nix you can use 
sort file | uniq -c

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Re^2: opinion - enormous input files
by dsheroh (Monsignor) on Feb 01, 2009 at 14:02 UTC
    No, he wants to do it in perl: 
    perl -e 'print `sort file | uniq -c`'

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