[LeetCode]#192. Word Frequency

Environment: bash

Key technique: cat, sort, awk

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.

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

Solution:

cat words.txt | tr -s ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r | awk '{print $2, $1}'

Submissions:

Reference:

https://leetcode.com/problems/word-frequency/discuss/965775/Easy-one-liner!