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Get the most common appearing lines from file in Linux

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Mar 15, 202616826 views
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I have a text file that has various words per line. How can I find the 12 most frequent appearing lines in the file and display them? I am not very good with scripting commands. If I could get the command and an explanation so that I can understand how to use it and expand my knowledge on commands …

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You can easily do this with built-in commands. Feed the contents of the file . We need this for the next step. This goes to . It will count the unique occurrence of each line. If the similar lines are not adjacent, this wouldn't have worked without …

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