[Tutor] Re:[Tutor]Question on python

[Magnus Lycka]

At 06:01 2002-11-21 +0530, sachin mehra wrote:
>Well I want to use the following commands:
>tr -cs '[:aplha:]' '[\n*]' < *.txt | uniq -c | sort -rm | more

First of all, you must have a "sort" before "uniq", and I think
you mean "sort -rn", not "sort -rm".

I can't imagine that you want the 'more' part if you intend to
use the output in a python script though.

I'm not sure it's a good idea to make these kinds of mixing
language shortcuts. This is certainly more compact than the
corresponding solution in python, which would probably land
on ten lines or so, but I think it's more difficult to
maintain. The maintainer has to manage two different
languages, at the same time. It's certainly less portable!



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