Question

Is there a shell script that runs on a mac to generate a word list from a text file, listing the unique words? Even better if it could sort by frequency….

sorry forgot to mention, yeah i prefer a bash one as i’m using mac now…

oh, my file is in french… (basically i’m reading a novel and learning french, so i try to generate a word list help myself). hope this is not a problem?

Answer 1

This command will do

cat file.txt |  tr "\"' " '\n' | sort -u

Here sort -u will not work on Macintosh machines. In that case use sort | uniq -c instead. (Thanks to Hank Gay)

cat file.txt |  tr "\"' " '\n' | sort | uniq -c