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How to count the number of duplicated lines in a file

How to count the number of duplicated lines in a file

Answer:

Assume you have a file "test.txt"

a
b
b
c
c
c

You want to count the number of distinct rows, here is the command

# sort test.txt | uniq -c

1 a
2 b
3 c
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