Very crude tool to tally the output of sfballotparse.py for 2018 in particular (with hardcoded last names for the top 3 candidates this past election)

grepcount-cand-files.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Very crude tool to tally the output of sfballotparse.py for 2018 in particular
# (with hardcoded last names for the top 3 candidates this past election)

votefile=${1}

if [ ! -f "${votefile}" ]; then
  echo "${votefile} not found"
  exit
fi

for cand1 in BREED KIM LENO; do
  for cand2 in BREED KIM LENO; do
    if [ "${cand1}" != "${cand2}" ]; then
      # echo $cand1 over $cand2
      over=$(grep ${cand1}.*${cand2} $votefile | wc -l | awk '{print $1}')
      instead=$(grep ${cand1} ${votefile} | grep -v ${cand2} | wc -l  | awk '{print $1}')
      echo "$(expr $over + $instead) voters prefer $cand1 over $cand2"
    fi
  done
done