Did Steve's question about order ever get answered?
I think he wanted something like this?
fmt -1 file_name | sort | uniq -c | sort -dk2 | sort -srnk1
Cheers,
Alan Isaac
PS Here's another Python implementation, which adds a couple
features: minimum frequency and minimum size requirements.
(Also
Steve Litt wrote:
fmt -1 < tsjustfacts.txt | sed -e "s/^[[:space:][:punct:]]*//" |
sed -e "s/[[:space:][:punct:]]*$//" | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | sort |
uniq -c | sort -rn
The one thing this doesn't do is, upon final sort, sort by count descending
but name ascending. Can you think of a w
On Mar 6, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> There's budget for a human indexer, as long as the indexer is me
> (the author).
Got it.
> So as the human indexer, how do I make this thing an index instead
> of a
> concordance?
A concordance is just a list of words in a document w/ referenc
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote:
> In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program to
> list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file).
...
> My program, which is written in Ruby, is licensed GNU GPL
> version 2, and is included as the remainder
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 08:25, William Adams wrote:
> While such utilities can be useful for the naïve user, they don't
> result in an index, so much as a concordance, and the difference
> between the two should be kept in mind.
>
> Rather than relying on such, if the project and budget warrant it
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 02:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Indexing is the most distasteful, boring, and tedious part of writing a
> > book. Making word lists like this at least makes it a brainless
> > activity.
>
> I've linked to this thread from the foll
While such utilities can be useful for the naïve user, they don't
result in an index, so much as a concordance, and the difference
between the two should be kept in mind.
Rather than relying on such, if the project and budget warrant it,
far better to employ a human indexer (who is _not_ als
> The one thing this doesn't do is, upon final sort, sort by count descending
> but name ascending. Can you think of a way to do that with standard Linux
> commands?
I am not sure I understand (or maybe I should read this again when I
wake up :)
Can you give a short example?
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
Indexing is the most distasteful, boring, and tedious part of writing a
book. Making word lists like this at least makes it a brainless
activity.
I've linked to this thread from the following page
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Indexing
Maybe you coul
Hi Jeremy,
On Monday 05 March 2007 21:05, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> > In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program
> > to list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file).
> >
> > Now of course this could be done with a simple
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program to
> list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file).
>
> Now of course this could be done with a simple one-liner using sed and
> sort -u, but my program lists the words in 2
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