Write a bash script to calculate the frequency of each word in a text file words.txt
.
For simplicity sake, you may assume:
-
words.txt
contains only lowercase characters and space' '
characters. -
Each word must consist of lowercase characters only.
-
Words are separated by one or more whitespace characters.
For example, assume that words.txt
has the following content:
the day is sunny the the the sunny is is
Your script should output the following, sorted by descending frequency:
the 4 is 3 sunny 2 day 1
Note:
Don’t worry about handling ties, it is guaranteed that each word’s frequency count is unique.
Solving method:
# Read from the file words.txt and output the word frequency list to stdout. cat words.txt | tr -s ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | awk '{print $2" "$1}'