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I have a document named names.txt . I want to write a command that finds the most repeated name and shows me how many times this name has been repeated.In case of a the, it will show a random name of the tied names.

For example:

The names.txt file includes the names: jason, bob, nick, jason and alice

I want it to show:

2 jason

Please help me guys!

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    What have you already tried? At which point did you get stuck?
    – Hennes
    Nov 9, 2017 at 17:50
  • I have tried different methods but i really dont know how to do it. Do you know some ways?
    – Panos Mikael
    Nov 9, 2017 at 17:53
  • ... and what is the format of the file (comma separated? one name per line?), and what do you want to happen in the case of a tie?
    – steeldriver
    Nov 9, 2017 at 17:54
  • The format is Comma Separated. In case of a tie it will show randomly one of the tied.
    – Panos Mikael
    Nov 9, 2017 at 17:56
  • What are those different methods you tried?
    – derHugo
    Nov 9, 2017 at 17:57

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This should answer the poster's problem: tr , '\n' <names.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -1

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