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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: From JoyceUlysses.txt -- words occurring exactly once
Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 23:20:08 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-05-30, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Given a text file of a novel (JoyceUlysses.txt) ...
>> could someone give me a pretty fast (and simple) program that'd give me
>> a list of all words occurring exactly once?
>
>     tr ' .;:,?!' '\n' | sort | uniq -u

Yep, that's pretty much how Doug McIlroy famously shut down Knuth.

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