File: tally.sh
   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 
   3 # The MIT License (MIT)
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  24 
  25 
  26 # tally
  27 #
  28 # Show a reverse-sorted tally of all lines read, where ties are sorted
  29 # alphabetically.
  30 #
  31 # Output is a 2-item TSV table, which starts with a header line.
  32 
  33 
  34 # handle help options
  35 case "$1" in
  36     -h|--h|-help|--help)
  37         # show help message, extracting the info-comment at the start
  38         # of this file, and quit
  39         awk '/^# +tally/, /^$/ { gsub(/^# ?/, ""); print }' "$0"
  40         exit 0
  41     ;;
  42 esac
  43 
  44 awk -v sortcmd="sort -t '   ' -rnk2 -k1d" '
  45 BEGIN { print "value\ttally" }
  46 
  47 { tally[$0]++ }
  48 
  49 END {
  50     for (k in tally) {
  51         printf "%s\t%d\n", k, tally[k] | sortcmd
  52     }
  53 }
  54 ' "$@"