Question

I am trying to do a count of files by date. The date is a field in the file name itself e.g.

CTCA~AT2~FVT~8388358~ONTAFT2-1~8~P~1100~HR24-500~033189784938~20120224~220306.VER

This is what I did:

find . -name '*VER' |awk -F~ '{print $11}'|uniq -c

This is the output I get:

  1 20120222
  3 20120222
  3 20120224
  3 20120224
  3 20120225
  5 20120225

But I want to sum up the counts like so

  4 20120222
  6 20120224
  8 20120225

How can I do that?

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A simple search with

find . -name '*VER' 

returns

...
./CTCA~AT2~FVT~8388358~ONTAFT2-1~7~P~1100~HR24-200~035699170847~20120217~150754.VER
./CTCA~AT2~FVT~8388358~ONTAFT2-1~8~P~1100~HR24-500~033066015695~20120223~204125.VER
./CTCA~AT2~FVT~7561825~ONTAFT2-1~4~P~1100~HR24-100~035688466560~20120223~085805.VER
./CTCA~AT2~FVT~9078749~ONTAFT2-1~4~P~1100~HR24-200~035580595029~20120209~110625.VER
./CTCA~AT2~FVT~7561825~ONTAFT2-1~5~P~1100~HR22-100~028933090384~20120223~104932.VER
...

Answer 1

That’s exactly what uniq -c should do. If it isn’t working it’s because your input isn’t sorted. Try this:

find . -name '*VER' |awk -F~ '{print $11}'|sort|uniq -c