Rod, Your explanation is very helpful.
Here is the result your code yields: 2 Apple Jones 1 Banana Herb 4 Harvey Haney 2 Sam Blue What if I want the output displayed like this: (How would I get that?) 4 Harvey Haney 2 Apple Jones 2 Sam Blue 1 Banana Herb Thus, the names are ordered by the number of times they appear, and if two or more names have the same number of occurrences, they are displayed in alphabetical order. Howard On Wednesday, 7 October 2020 at 11:12:30 pm UTC-4 Rod Buchanan wrote: > > -d’ ’ tells cut to use the space character as the column/field delimiter. > > -f3-4 tells it to only return columns/fields 3 and 4. > > > From the man page. (Type “man cut” in Terminal.app for complete info.) > > cut -- cut out selected portions of each line of a file. > > SYNOPSIS > cut -f list [-d delim] [-s] [file ...] > > DESCRIPTION > The cut utility cuts out selected portions of each line (as specified > by list) > from each file and writes them to the standard output. If > no file arguments are > specified, or a file argument is a single dash (`-'), cut reads from > the standard > input. The items specified by list can be in terms of column > position or in > terms of fields delimited by a special character. Column numbering > starts from > 1. > > -d delim > Use delim as the field delimiter character instead of the tab > character. > > -f list > The list specifies fields, separated in the input by the > field delimiter > character (see the -d option.) Output fields are separated > by a single > occurrence of the field delimiter character. > > -- > Rod > > On Oct 7, 2020, at 11:03 AM, Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rod, > > What does the line below do? > cut -d' ' -f3-4 > > Howard > > On Wednesday, 7 October 2020 at 10:11:31 am UTC-4 Rod Buchanan wrote: > >> >> Click Text -> Run Unix Command… , then run this: >> >> cut -d' ' -f3-4 | sort | uniq -c >> >> When I copy/paste your data I get these results: >> >> 2 Apple Jones >> 1 Banana Herb >> 4 Harvey Haney >> 2 Sam Blue >> >> -- >> Rod >> >> >> -- >> Rod >> >> On Oct 6, 2020, at 1:23 PM, Howard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have the following data (shown below). I want to count how many times >> each of the four names appear (Harvey Haney, Apple Jones, Banana Herb, Sam >> Blue). Can this be done in BBEdit? If not, I would appreciate suggestions >> on how it can be done. >> >> 10:45:57 From Harvey Haney : Good morning. How is everyone today? >> 10:46:08 From Apple Jones : I'm doing good. How are you? >> 10:46:12 From Banana Herb : Good how are you! >> 10:46:18 From Sam Blue : I'm doing fine. How are you? >> 10:45:57 From Harvey Haney : Good morning. How is everyone today? >> 10:46:08 From Harvey Haney : I'm doing good. How are you? >> 10:46:12 From Apple Jones : Good how are you! >> 10:46:18 From Sam Blue : I'm doing fine. How are you? >> 10:45:57 From Harvey Haney : Good morning. >> >> -- >> This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature >> request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" >> rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: < >> https://twitter.com/bbedit> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BBEdit Talk" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/379b202c-463e-4d7c-8a26-af63ab83d0aan%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/379b202c-463e-4d7c-8a26-af63ab83d0aan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" > rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: < > https://twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/83b7baf3-4b7a-4c49-8e5a-697b57795215n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/83b7baf3-4b7a-4c49-8e5a-697b57795215n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/c95dc515-429d-4ccb-9107-2050e1e38e28n%40googlegroups.com.
