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  tr -sc 'A-Za-z' '\n' < ./wizard_of_oz | sort | uniq -c you should replace ./wizard_of_oz by the file you want to analyze change lower by upper case letters: tr -sc 'A-Za-z' '\n' < ./wizard_of_oz |tr a-z A-Z | sort | uniq -c order numerically the occurrences: tr -sc 'A-Za-z' '\n' < ./wizard_of_oz |tr a-z A-Z | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r