Hello, I have output similar to the following:

Bob 0400 0320
Bob 0420 0320
Bob 0425 0319
Jill 2300 0319
Joe 1100 0320
Bob 1300 0319
Sue 2115 0319
Sue 2100 0319
Joe 1100 0318

And the list continues on and on with different "names" in column 1. I want to display a count of each unique name in column 1 and show in a simple report. Example, if Bob shows up 10 times, Sue 8 times, and Jill 3 times I want the report to look like this:

Bob 10
Sue 8
Jill 3

Thanks for any assistance with this!

Use awk's associative arrays:

awk ' { per[$1] += 1 }
END { for (i in per)
print i, per[i] } ' myfile

can u explain the above given code

sree