I want to share with you a small shell script that I often use for reporting purposes, which allows you to simulate the famous “count and group by” well known from DBAs. No database is required. It only use “awk” which is installed with each Linux / Unix distribution (I think?), so you can use it “out of the box”.
In other words: the script allows you to count the number of time a word appears in a text file and display a formatted result.