[TUHS] Discuss of style and design of computer programs from a user stand point

[Noel Hunt]

I was about to suggest using the Plan9 port utilities of the
same name but it seems 'uniq' is not coded to handle Runes
(aka utf-8). I don't imagine it would be hard to re-write it to
handle utf-8.

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
> > tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | sed ${1}q
>
> The cool thing about this thread is that I learned two things: what tr
> -s does, and the Nq does for sed...
>
> Sadly, this doesn't work so well for text that isn't ASCII-7 english...
>
> Warner
>
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