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diff --git a/contrib/awk/awklib/eg/prog/wordfreq.awk b/contrib/awk/awklib/eg/prog/wordfreq.awk
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+# Print list of word frequencies
+{
+    $0 = tolower($0)    # remove case distinctions
+    gsub(/[^a-z0-9_ \t]/, "", $0)  # remove punctuation
+    for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++)
+        freq[$i]++
+}
+END {
+    sort = "sort +1 -nr"
+    for (word in freq)
+        printf "%s\t%d\n", word, freq[word] | sort
+    close(sort)
+}