Given a .txt files with space separated words such as:
But where is Esope the holly Bastard
But where is
And the Awk function :
cat /pathway/to/your/file.txt | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2"@"$1}'
I get the following output in my console :
1 Bastard
1 Esope
1 holly
1 the
2 But
2 is
2 where
How to get into printed into myFile.txt ?
I actually have 300.000 lines and near 2 millions words. Better to output the result into a file.
EDIT: Used answer (by @Sudo_O):
$ awk '{a[$1]++}END{for(k in a)print a[k],k}' RS=" |\n" myfile.txt | sort > myfileout.txt
Your pipeline isn't very efficient you should do the whole thing in awk
instead:
awk '{a[$1]++}END{for(k in a)print a[k],k}' RS=" |\n" file > myfile
If you want the output in sorted order:
awk '{a[$1]++}END{for(k in a)print a[k],k}' RS=" |\n" file | sort > myfile
The actual output given by your pipeline is:
$ tr ' ' '\n' < file | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2"@"$1}'
Bastard@1
But@2
Esope@1
holly@1
is@2
the@1
where@2
Note: using cat
is useless here we can just redirect the input with <
. The awk
script doesn't make sense either, it's just reversing the order of the words and words frequency and separating them with an @
. If we drop the awk
script the output is closer to the desired output (notice the preceding spacing however and it's unsorted):
$ tr ' ' '\n' < file | sort | uniq -c
1 Bastard
2 But
1 Esope
1 holly
2 is
1 the
2 where
We could sort
again a remove the leading spaces with sed
:
$ tr ' ' '\n' < file | sort | uniq -c | sort | sed 's/^\s*//'
1 Bastard
1 Esope
1 holly
1 the
2 But
2 is
2 where
But like I mention at the start let awk
handle it:
$ awk '{a[$1]++}END{for(k in a)print a[k],k}' RS=" |\n" file | sort
1 Bastard
1 Esope
1 holly
1 the
2 But
2 is
2 where
Just redirect output to a file.
cat /pathway/to/your/file.txt % tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -c | \
awk '{print $2"@"$1}' > myFile.txt
Just use shell redirection :
echo "test" > overwrite-file.txt
echo "test" >> append-to-file.txt
Tips
A useful command is tee
which allow to redirect to a file and still see the output :
echo "test" | tee overwrite-file.txt
echo "test" | tee -a append-file.txt
Sorting and locale
I see you are working with asian script, you need to be need to be careful with the locale use by your system, as the resulting sort might not be what you expect :
* WARNING * The locale specified by the environment affects sort order. Set LC_ALL=C to get the traditional sort order that uses native byte values.
And have a look at the output of :
locale