Alternative to "sort | uniq -c | sort -n"

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I've been doing | sort | uniq -c | sort -n for years! Just wondering if somewhere buried in the command stack that people have been updating for years if there is a simple alternative.

What do you want to achive? Any kind of improvement or just type less? — ghm1014, Mar 14 '12 at 18:11

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 14 '12 at 15:05

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Maybe name it quniqsort? Mindset of Unix: keeping it simple and chaining small things together.

#/bin/sh
sort < /dev/stdin | uniq -c | sort -n

answered Mar 14 '12 at 15:05

Jeff Ferland

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I would probably change this to -- sort $* | uniq -c | sort -n since then the script can take optional arguments. – koblas Mar 14 '12 at 18:17
@koblas -- I've started using alias sus='sort | uniq -c | sort -n' which you can remember easily given Among Us :) – c4urself May 07 '21 at 19:03
sort "$@" preserves the word boundaries and thus is better than sort $* (at least in bash). – musiphil Mar 07 '22 at 23:34

Alternative to "sort | uniq -c | sort -n"

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