LeetCode 192. Word Frequency

分析

难度 中
来源
https://leetcode.com/problems/word-frequency/

题目

Write a bash script to calculate the frequency of each word in a text file words.txt.
For simplicity sake, you may assume:
• words.txt contains only lowercase characters and space ’ ’ characters.
• Each word must consist of lowercase characters only.
• Words are separated by one or more whitespace characters.

Example:

Assume that words.txt has the following content:
the day is sunny the the
the sunny is is
Your script should output the following, sorted by descending frequency:
the 4
is 3
sunny 2
day 1
Note:
• Don’t worry about handling ties, it is guaranteed that each word’s frequency count is unique.
• Could you write it in one-line using Unix pipes?

解答

https://leetcode.com/problems/word-frequency/discuss/55443/My-simple-solution-(one-line-with-pipe)

cat words.txt | tr -s ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r | awk '{ print $2, $1 }'

tr -s: truncate the string with target string, but only remaining one
instance (e.g. multiple whitespaces)
sort: To make the same string successive so that uniq could count the same string fully and correctly.
uniq -c: uniq is used to filter out the repeated lines which are successive, -c means counting
sort -r: -r means sorting in descending order
awk ‘{ print $2, $1 }’: To format the output, see here.