[Tutor] test

[Asif Iqbal]

Hi All

I have a very simple problem and I am looking for the simplest solution.

I have a list of elements in a file. I like to find the total occurance
of each element in the list like this

10 string1
7 string2
1 string3

from a list which has only string1,string2 and string3 like this

string1
..
string2
...
string1
..
string3
...
...


I have a list of 30000 lines and I think I have only 615 unique
elements. So I like the script not to take too much memory of the
system. I will be running it on Solaris 8

Thanks a lot

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