On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Magnus Lycka wrote: > At 06:01 2002-11-21 +0530, sachin mehra wrote: > >Well I want to use the following commands: > >tr -cs '[:aplha:]' '[\n*]' < *.txt | uniq -c | sort -rm | more > > First of all, you must have a "sort" before "uniq", and I think Here's a page that explains more about this: http://unix.about.com/library/weekly/aa061702a.htm Good luck!