Re: subtotalling identical records

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:01:44 -0500, Ed Morton <morton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

tony wrote:

I have a file of non-unique names.

allen
allen
allen
bob
bob

What I want is

allen 3
bob 2

Any one-liners to do this?

thanks

uniq -c file

Ed.

3 minutes! Awesome Ed.

thanks,
tony
.

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