Re: subtotalling identical records

Ed Morton 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.

You might really need,

sort < file | uniq -c

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---Robert
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