Linux help: using a command to list certain categories in a directory with the number of employees
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Now how would i make a list of data showing only the department and the total number of employees it has. For instance how would I would a Linux command to show the Engineering department and how many people work in that department based off the data? What i am concluding is using the "awk" command but im not for sure. someone please help.
Now how would i make a list of data showing only the department and the total number of employees it has. For instance how would I would a Linux command to show the Engineering department and how many people work in that department based off the data? What i am concluding is using the "awk" command but im not for sure. someone please help.
What have you done/tried so far?? And read the "Question Guidelines" and LQ Rules, please...we're happy to help you, but posting a homework question without showing your own efforts isn't going to get you much.
Awk is complex and can do quite a bit. You can also accomplish this with a bash script, using grep and other things as well. Perl, python, and any other scripting/programming language can also be used. You also don't tell us what your data above actually is, or where it comes from.
I have tried awk to cut out specific fields in the directory and list only the fields I wants for instance awk -F "," '{print $4}' labdata | grep Engineering | wc -l. But when i do that it only list the number of times it shows up for instance "7" is what pops up I dont know how to get the word Engineering into the command line with it.
That counts the number of instances of each department in the list, not the total employes, but is certainly an excellent starting point for the OP to resolve the issue.
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