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We’ve used Fira Code font for our Linux terminal…

tr -c "'[:alnum:]" "\n" | grep "[[:alnum:]]" | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

While grep -c works on a line, this puts every word or number on its own line and sorts them. Then uniq -c deduplicates them as well as printing the number of occurrences. grep is used to remove blank lines only because if you don’t, uniq prints out the number of blank lines as well, and I didn’t yet come up with a better way to do that.

The final sort is optional, used to list the words by frequency of appearance instead of alphanumerically. Note the apostrophe in the first set given to tr such that possessives and contractions remain whole words but parenthesis, quotation marks, and other punctuation are stripped off. Also note that this breaks on longer, comma-separated numbers, turning each group into a (probably meaningless) lone 1-, 2-, or 3-digit number. So just don’t try to handle those as though they are words, and there is no problem.

Awesome!

• To print all found entries: ag -i mauris example.txt
• To only count all entries: ag -c mauris example.txt

Give it a try…