I'm a obsessive Unix geek and can't really understand, how anyone could work without all these command tools.
Here I'll write about small 'uniq' recipe.
I've downloaded CADO-NFS git repo.
Getting a list of commits:
% git log
commit 89f7f3b547a82318b76108f25382dadadd1ea6a3 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Merge: 988b3b5bb 969d40f12
Author: Emmanuel Thomé <emmanuel.thome@inria.fr>
Date: Wed Feb 23 19:52:43 2022 +0000
Merge branch 'review-testing-pool-and-doc' into 'master'
Review testing pool and doc
See merge request cado-nfs/cado-nfs!63
commit 969d40f129e399a184a368e442a75218edbeabcc
Author: Emmanuel Thomé <Emmanuel.Thome@inria.fr>
Date: Wed Feb 23 10:53:03 2022 -0800
add dpkg --add-architecture for debian 32-bit builds
...
List of authors:
% git log | grep Author ... Author: Alexander Kruppa <akruppa@gmail.com> Author: Alexander Kruppa <akruppa@gmail.com> Author: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr> Author: Pierrick Gaudry <pierrick.gaudry@loria.fr> Author: Pierrick Gaudry <pierrick.gaudry@loria.fr> Author: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr> Author: Alexander Kruppa <akruppa@gmail.com> Author: Alexander Kruppa <akruppa@gmail.com> Author: Alexander Kruppa <akruppa@gmail.com> Author: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr> Author: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr> ...
Who are the most active authors of this project?
% git log | grep Author | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
...
128 Author: Thomas Richard <thomas.richard@inria.fr>
136 Author: Lionel Muller <lionel.muller@loria.fr>
138 Author: Jérémie Detrey <Jeremie.Detrey@loria.fr>
177 Author: Cyril Bouvier <cyril.bouvier@lirmm.fr>
183 Author: Alain Filbois <alain.filbois@inria.fr>
229 Author: Laurent Imbert <Laurent.Imbert@lirmm.fr>
233 Author: Shi Bai <shih.bai@gmail.com>
459 Author: François Morain <Francois.Morain@lix.polytechnique.fr>
500 Author: Laurent Grémy <laurent.gremy@inria.fr>
774 Author: Cyril Bouvier <cyril.bouvier@loria.fr>
1456 Author: Pierrick Gaudry <pierrick.gaudry@loria.fr>
2934 Author: Alexander Kruppa <akruppa@gmail.com>
4197 Author: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>
5553 Author: Emmanuel Thomé <Emmanuel.Thome@inria.fr>
You see, there are many French uni domains. Which French uni provided most authors to that project?
Using 'cut', drop everything before the '@' sign to get a list of domains:
% git log | grep Auth | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | cut -d '@' -f 2 ... lix.polytechnique.fr> gmail.com> inria.fr> gmail.com> inria.fr> univ-lille1.fr> inria.fr> lix.polytechnique.fr> ens-rennes.fr> inria.fr> loria.fr> loria.fr> lirmm.fr> inria.fr> lirmm.fr> gmail.com> lix.polytechnique.fr> ...
Collecting statistics of domains:
% git log | grep Auth | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | cut -d '@' -f 2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
...
1 cis.upenn.edu>
1 ens-lyon.fr>
1 ens-rennes.fr>
1 fcatrel.loria.fr>
1 google.com>
1 quarkslab.com>
1 seas.upenn.edu>
1 uevora.pt>
1 unilim.fr>
1 univ-lille1.fr>
1 univ-lille.fr>
1 wurst.nancy.grid5000.fr>
2 lirmm.fr>
3 lix.polytechnique.fr>
5 gmail.com>
7 loria.fr>
13 inria.fr>
INRIA provided most -- 13 developers. LORIA -- 7. To get this information, I spent just ~1 minute.
Another usage of 'uniq -c' command in my blog.

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