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bug#6949: Uniq command should allow total to be displayed


From: Alan Curry
Subject: bug#6949: Uniq command should allow total to be displayed
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:04:37 -0500 (GMT+5)

Miles Duke writes:
> 
> 'uniq --count' is an excellent tool for summarizing data, but it is
> missing one useful feature - an overall total.

This might be a good idea...

> 
> It's embarrassing to have to go to excel to bring the totals together.

...but you can't think of any other tool that can add up a bunch of numbers?!
You're using dynamite to kill a mosquito. There must be a dozen basic
utilities that can do arithmetic. Like awk:

  ... | uniq -c | awk '{t+=$1}END{print t,"total"}1'

-- 
Alan Curry





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