Select unique lines along with their count in Linux

Question

Hi Team,

I have lots of entries in a file. I want to find unique entries along with the count. How can I find that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can find the unique entries from a file with the help of uniq command. This command is available in your Linux system

$ cat nums.txt | uniq -c

Here flag -c is used to count the entries.