Hey, Literature Majors...some help here?

[walkerk]

I don't know how the windows guys do it, but the Unix guys would do something like this:

"cat thedocument.txt | grep -c theword"

this would give you the count of how many times the text "theword" shows up.

I could write a script that would set up an array of the unique words in the document and then run that with each word variable then dump the results to a text file.

I'm sure the Windows guys have something that will do the same thing with one or two clicks. :rolleyes:

Even better would be:

tr -sc 'A-Za-z' '\012' <file.txt | sort | uniq -ci | sort -rn | more