Make a word list from a text

[Wulfy]

Brendan wrote:
> On Saturday 02 August 2008, Wulfy wrote:
>   
>> Wulfy wrote:
>>     
>>> I want to take a text file and extract all the words and sort them into
>>> a unique list.  I've looked at split, cut, sed and awk (the last two
>>> just confused me no end...  :@( ) and I can't find a imple way to do
>>> it.  I suppose I could write a Java program to do it, but it seems silly
>>> to reinvent the wheel like that.  I'm sure there are a bazillion ways to
>>> do it on the command line but I'm flummoxed.  I tried googling and every
>>> search string I tried brought me dozens of Windows programs to do the
>>> job or python programs, but nothing I could understand...
>>>       
>> Many thanks to Mark and Brendan for their help.
>>
>> Mark's program gave me a list of words, one to a line, I now need to
>> remove punctuation.  Brendan's program removed all the spaces but
>> otherwise left the rest of the text as it was,
>>     
>
> Yeah, the perl debugger in my head doesn't work so well. ;-)
>
>   
Still, you took the time to try to help and that's what this community 
is supposed to be about.  I couldn't have even begun to write that perl 
program so any help is appreciated!  :@)

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