Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files

[Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>]

Hi,

S Mathias wrote:
> I just can't google for it:
>
> I'm searching for a "bash" "one liner" (awk, perl, or anything) for this: 
>
> there are text files, in several directories: 
>
> mkdir one
> mkdir two
> mkdir three
>
> echo "word1 word2 word3" > one/asf.txt
> echo "word2 word4, word5" > one/asfcxv saf.txt
> echo "word1. word2" > one/dsgsdg.txt
>
> echo "word6, word3!" > two/sdgsd dsf.txt
> echo "word6" > two/ergd.txt
>
> echo "asdf, word2" > three/werdf.txt
> echo "word7, word8 word9 word10" > three/qwerb erfsdgdsg.txt
> echo "word4 word3" > three/web erg as.txt
>
> so it does the magic* "recursively":
>
> $ SOMEMAGIC > output.txt
> cat output.txt
> asdf 1
> word1 2
> word2 4
> word3 3
> word4 2
> word5 1
> word6 2
> word7 1
> word8 1
> word9 1
> word10 1
> $

find . ! -name output.txt -type f|xargs cat | \
   tr -s ' .,' '\n\n\n'|sort -u | \
   while read x;do find . ! -name output.txt -type f| \
   xargs cat|echo $x: `grep -c $x `;done | \
   tee output.txt

That was fun...  of course, it was a one liner, but I added the 
formatting above for the email ;-)

Cheers

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Kind Regards
AndrewM

Andrew McGlashan
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