wordfreq.awk

Compute word frequency. (code from: Arnold Robbins, Effective awk Programming)

script usage

$ awk -f wordfreq.awk < input_file

usage examples

The examples bellow will count the occurrences of words in ulysses.txt:

$ cat ulysses.txt | awk -f wordfreq.awk | head
the     8031
and     5896
i       4711
to      4540
of      3738
a       2958
in      2554
he      2541
that    2454
it      2138

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