of course, your solution helped, too. thanks.
I also found a tool in freshmeat.net. http://freshmeat.net/projects/wf/?topic_id=856 wf scans a text file or standard input and counts the frequency of words through the whole text, sending resulting output to stdout showing each word and corresponding frequency. I found it with keywords "count word", in page 3 of the results. Doing exactly the same thing, but much more generic, which is what I wanted. :( > zcat messages.1.gz | cut -f6 -d\ - | sort | uniq -c > > yields the following partial output: > 1 snort > 1 sr0: > 1 sr1: > 3 ttyS00 > 21 usb-uhci.c: > 13 usb.c: > 1 usbkbd.c: > 15 vesafb: > 1 vga16fb: -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux we trust. / v \ news://news.hkpcug.org /( _ )\ http://www.linux-sxs.org ^ ^ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
