Given a .txt files with space separated words such as:
But where is Esope the holly Bastard
But where is
And the Awk f
Your pipeline isn't very efficient you should do the whole thing in awk
instead:
awk '{a[$1]++}END{for(k in a)print a[k],k}' RS=" |\n" file > myfile
If you want the output in sorted order:
awk '{a[$1]++}END{for(k in a)print a[k],k}' RS=" |\n" file | sort > myfile
The actual output given by your pipeline is:
$ tr ' ' '\n' < file | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2"@"$1}'
Bastard@1
But@2
Esope@1
holly@1
is@2
the@1
where@2
Note: using cat
is useless here we can just redirect the input with <
. The awk
script doesn't make sense either, it's just reversing the order of the words and words frequency and separating them with an @
. If we drop the awk
script the output is closer to the desired output (notice the preceding spacing however and it's unsorted):
$ tr ' ' '\n' < file | sort | uniq -c
1 Bastard
2 But
1 Esope
1 holly
2 is
1 the
2 where
We could sort
again a remove the leading spaces with sed
:
$ tr ' ' '\n' < file | sort | uniq -c | sort | sed 's/^\s*//'
1 Bastard
1 Esope
1 holly
1 the
2 But
2 is
2 where
But like I mention at the start let awk
handle it:
$ awk '{a[$1]++}END{for(k in a)print a[k],k}' RS=" |\n" file | sort
1 Bastard
1 Esope
1 holly
1 the
2 But
2 is
2 where