How to find the most popular word in the text in a text file through the linux terminal

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How to find the most popular word in a text file through the linux terminal? Need to write a script

https://superuser.com/questions/661661/listing-all-words-in-a-text-file-and-finding-the-most-frequent-word — AsenM, Nov 30 '17 at 08:07

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 30 '17 at 08:13

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This has been answered many times, please use search next time.

tr -c '[:alnum:]' '[\n*]' < test.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10

answered Nov 30 '17 at 08:13

AsenM

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