Gets most talkative users from whatsapp archive

group_talkative.sh

#!/usr/bin/bash
cat _chat.txt | sed "s|[[0-9 / , :]*][[:space:]]||" | grep -o ".*:" | sed 's/:.*//g' | tr -cd '[:print:]\r\n\t' | grep -v "^\s*$" | sort | uniq -c | sort -bnr

# cat file | replace [date/date/date , , , ] with "" | get everything before ":" | GET EVERYTHING BEFORE FIRST ":" | filter out non printing chars | idk tbh something to do with the count | idk I should man this | sorting ?? idk i shsould man this

# prints out most talkative in chat, w some false pos

# https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/39044/427069 -- sort - Get text-file word occurrence count of all words & print output sorted
# https://stackoverflow.com/a/3540639/3875151 -- bash - Removing non-displaying characters from a file