I am trying to count and display only the words that are repeated more than once in a file. The basic idea is:
- You are given a file with names and characters like commas, colons, slashes, etc..
- Use the
cut command to display only the first names in the file (other commands are also allowed).
- Count and then display only the names repeated more than once.
I got to the point of counting and displaying all the names. However, I haven't found a way to display and to count only those names repeated more than once.
Here is a section of the file:
user1:x:80:200:Mia,Spurs:/home/user1:/bin/bash
user2:x:80:200:Martha,Dalton:/home/user2:/bin/bash
user3:x:80:200:Lucy,Carlson:/home/user3:/bin/bash
user4:x:80:200:Carl,Bingo:/home/user4:/bin/bash
Here is what I have been able to do:
Daniel@Daniel-MacBook-Pro Files % cut -d ":" -f 5-5 file1 | cut -d "," -f 1-1 | sort -n | uniq -c
1 Mia
3 Martha
1 Lucy
1 Carl
1 Jessi
1 Joke
1 Jim
2 Race
1 Sem
1 Shirly
1 Susan
1 Tim