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Find most frequent line in file in bash

Suppose I have a file similar to as follows:

Abigail 85
Kaylee 25
Kaylee 25
kaylee
Brooklyn
Kaylee 25
kaylee 25

I would like to find the most repeated line, the output must be just the line.

I've tried 

sort list | uniq -c

but I need clean output, just the most repeated line (in this example Kaylee 25).

Solution

  • Kaizen ~

    $ sort zlist | uniq -c | sort -r | head -1|  xargs | cut -d" " -f2-

Kaylee 25

    does this help ?