| Epic shell hack by the inventor of pipesThis is an old story, but it's new to me:
»www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/1···less-egg
It took me a long time to understand all of it, even though it's a really short script:
tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' |
tr A-Z a-z |
sort |
uniq -c |
sort -rn |
sed ${1}q
The line that gave me the most trouble was "sed ${1}q". The key thing there is that "${1}" is not a sed expression. The shell will expand that with the value of the first command-line parameter to the script. In order to get it to work, I had to paste the lines into a script file and invoke it like this:
cat distribKeys.pl | ./countWords.sh 3
30 ssh
16 print
13 cmd
I had never heard of Doug McIlroy before. I felt like a poser after reading about him. I almost went home.
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kudos:1 | Given he's a mathematician, it's something I'd expect. Very elegant.
Excellent find. He's news to me .. clearly I've been living in a cave.
Cheers,
-pablo
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