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Hands-On Data Science with the Command Line

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Science with the Command Line Automate everyday data science tasks using command-line tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789132984
Length 124 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Performing a word count

Now that we have some data to work with, let's combine the two files together into a single file. To do so, perform the following:

cat *.tsv > reviews.tsv

This is what you should see once you run the preceding command:

Excellent. Let's say we wanted to count how many words or lines are in this file. Let's introduce the wc command. wc is short for (you guessed it) word count. Let's quickly man wc to see the options available:

Looks like wc can count the lines and also the words of a file. Let's see how many lines our file actually has:

wc -l reviews.tsv

The following is what you should see once you run the preceding command:

That's a lot of lines! What about words? Run the following:

wc -w reviews.tsv

This looks like a great dataset to use. It's not big data by any means, but there's a lot of cool stuff we...

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