symbol count in a text file [iptables log]

[m.w.chang]

of course, I didn't mean to use sql. just wonder whether there is a 
utility function that does the same thing. given the long history unix, 
there should be one... just don't know the keywords to reach it...

> That's an SQL statement which would require all files be stored within a 
> database. It might be possible, but that's a *LOT* of overhead just to 
> do the same things that grep, awk and sed can do.
> 

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