combine sed and sort commands in bash script

Question

I have this bash commands to filter words in a text file (file1 in the example)

Until now i have to use two separate commands to get the result i want

sed -n "SAMPLETEXT" file1 > file2
sort file2 | uniq -c > file2.tmp && mv file2.tmp file2.txt

because i need to filter out lines with certain strings from file1 and then count all equal lines.

is there a way to do that all in one command to show the output in the console so that i dont need to even create a "file2"?

tso · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-06 08:38:58Z

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sed -n "SAMPLETEXT" file1|sort| uniq -c

answered Sep 6, 2017 at 8:38

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You are welcome. if it helped, you can upvote and accept my answer.

hurturk · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-06 08:40:43Z

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You can use grep too:

grep "SAMPLETEXT" file1 | sort | uniq -c

answered Sep 6, 2017 at 8:40

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