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count occurences of each word in novel David Copperfield

Terminal - count occurences of each word in novel David Copperfield
wget -q -O- http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/cprfd10.txt | sed '1,419d' | tr "\n" " " | tr " " "\n" | perl -lpe 's/\W//g;$_=lc($_)' | grep "^[a-z]" | awk 'length > 1' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2"\t"$1}'
2009-05-04 16:00:39
User: alperyilmaz
Functions: awk grep perl sed sort tr uniq wget
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count occurences of each word in novel David Copperfield

This command might not be useful for most of us, I just wanted to share it to show power of command line.

Download simple text version of novel David Copperfield from Poject Gutenberg and then generate a single column of words after which occurences of each word is counted by sort | uniq -c combination.

This command removes numbers and single characters from count. I'm sure you can write a shorter version.

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?Is a joke?

curl http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/cprfd10.txt|awk -v RS='[^a-zA-Z0-9]' /./'{a[$1]++}END{for (i in a) print a[i], i|"sort -n"}'
Comment by point_to_null 215 weeks and 2 days ago

I like the posted command better than the one by point_to_null. While point_to_null's is simpler and shorter, it does not strip out numbers and single characters. The download stats are nice, but not really an improvement.

Comment by jestin 215 weeks and 2 days ago

@point_to_null: wow! i wouldn't imagine this can be done with as short command as yours. you must be a commandline guru..

Comment by alperyilmaz 215 weeks and 2 days ago

Nice one! point_to_null gets points for doing it with fewer pipes.

alperyilmaz gets points for using more tools though (in order: wget, sed, tr, tr, perl, grep, awk, sort, uniq, awk) showing people what piping really means.

Comment by bwoodacre 215 weeks and 2 days ago

what the...

Comment by linuxrawkstar 215 weeks and 2 days ago

...exactly. This doesn't make much sense. Any explanation why someone would want to count the words in this novel ?

Comment by Alanceil 215 weeks and 1 day ago

@Alanceil something like this could be modified to find occurrences of words or letters following each other to create a Markov chain modeled after a given text. That would be useful for a text generator if you needed one...

Comment by leon 215 weeks ago

tag clouds, semantic analysis, you know, stuff like that.

Comment by mondotofu 177 weeks and 3 days ago

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