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Count female/male pronouns in a plain-text file (here, Moby Dick from Project Gutenberg)
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mq-in-shell.txt
$ curl http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2701/pg2701.txt > moby-dick.txt
$ tr -cs "[:alpha:]" "\n" < moby-dick.txt | egrep "^(she|her|hers|herself)$" | wc -l
439
$ tr -cs "[:alpha:]" "\n" < moby-dick.txt | egrep "^(he|him|his|himself)$" | wc -l
5384
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