How to find the most popular word in a text file through the linux terminal? Need to write a script
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3Use sed, sort, uniq, head commands. – Ipor Sircer Nov 30 '17 at 04:52
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1https://superuser.com/questions/661661/listing-all-words-in-a-text-file-and-finding-the-most-frequent-word – AsenM Nov 30 '17 at 08:07
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This has been answered many times, please use search next time.
tr -c '[:alnum:]' '[\n*]' < test.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10
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