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Given the following list of presidents do a top ten word count in the smallest program possible: INPUT FILE Washington Washington Adams Jefferson Jefferson Madison Madison Monroe Monroe John Quincy Adams Jackson Jackson Van Buren Harrison DIES Tyler Polk Taylor DIES Fillmore Pierce Buchanan Lincoln Lincoln DIES Johnson Grant Grant Hayes Garfield DIES Arthur Cleveland Harrison Cleveland McKinley McKinley DIES Teddy Roosevelt Teddy Roosevelt Taft Wilson Wilson Harding Coolidge Hoover FDR FDR FDR FDR Dies Truman Truman Eisenhower Eisenhower Kennedy DIES Johnson Johnson Nixon Nixon ABDICATES Ford Carter Reagan Reagan Bush Clinton Clinton Bush Bush Obama To start it off in bash 97 characters cat input.txt | tr " " "\n" | tr -d "\t " | sed 's/^$//g' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10 Output : 2 Nixon 2 Reagan 2 Roosevelt 2 Truman 2 Washington 2 Wilson 3 Bush 3 Johnson 4 FDR 7 DIES Break ties as you see fit! Happy fourth! For those of you who care more information on presidents can be found here .

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