[Linux-disciples] Converting an array to a hash

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:35:12PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 01:31:03PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> > You could, of course, also run the command line:
> > 
> > find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' | tr " " "\n" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
> 
> Quite right; I hadn't thought about that, but it's pretty
> cool.
> 
> The command line would have to be modified so that we're not
> catching words with numbers, or other such non-English
> words. It would also have to convert everything to lowercase
> so that 'the' doesn't count as a different word from 'The'.
> After all that is said and done, and after appropriate error
> checking, I wonder whether the bash trick would be any
> shorter?

Ah, wouldn't be too much work:

find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' | tr "A-Z ,." "a-z\n" | grep -v "[0-9\<\>=\/\"\*]" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

Something like that.  Might still need a little honing.
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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