How to sort list based on word count ?

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• fxf Member

  October 2016 edited October 2016

  do you have access to a shell on linux or something similar? take an unsorted list of lines of words in unsorted.txt and enter this shiz

  fxf@box:~$ awk '{print NF,$0}' unsorted.txt | sort -n | cut -d' ' -f2- | tee -a sorted.txt

  and presto you have pretty lines in sorted.txt

  Thanked by 4mexyul raindog308 ehab deadbeef
• mexyul Member

  October 2016 edited October 2016

  @fxf said:
  do you have access to a shell on linux or something similar? take an unsorted list of lines of words in unsorted.txt and enter this shiz

  fxf@box:~$ awk '{print NF,$0}' unsorted.txt | sort -n | cut -d' ' -f2- | tee -a sorted.txt

  and presto you have pretty lines in sorted.txt

  yes i have access to shell. Thanks it's works.
• varwww Member

  October 2016

  Shell thanks

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• ehab Member

  October 2016

  @fxf said:
  `fxf@box:~$ awk '{print NF,$0}' unsorted.txt

  you sneaky dragon i liked how you thought of it, thanks