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A simple shell script that shows and enumerates the most frequently words used in a file
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frequently_words.sh
# Show and enumerate the most frequently words in a file
# Use:
# $ chmod a+x frequently_words.sh
# $ ./frequently_words file_path
cat $1 | tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
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