a sort+uniq snippet
February 16 2012, 9:26 AM
A favorite little command-line snippet: | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr and then pipe the result to a pager or redirect to a file For example, to see how many times people have logged in, in decreasing rank order:
last | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | less
last | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | less