awk count unique occurrences and print other columns - awk

Question

I have the following piece of code:
awk '{h[$1]++}; END { for(k in h) print k, h[k]}' ${infile} >> ${outfile2}
Which does part of what I want: printing out the unique values and then also counting how many times these unique values have occurred. Now, I want to print out the 2nd and 3rd column as well from each unique value. For some reason the following does not seem to work:
awk '{h[$1]++}; END { for(k in h) print k, $2, $3, h[k]}' ${infile} >> ${outfile2}
awk '{h[$1]++}; END { for(k in h) print k, h[$2], h[$3], h[k]}' ${infile} >> ${outfile2}
The first prints out the last index's 2nd and 3rd column, whereas the second code prints out nothing except k and h[k].
${infile} would look like:
20600 33.8318 -111.9286 -1 0.00 0
20600 33.8318 -111.9286 -1 0.00 0
30900 33.3979 -111.8140 -1 0.00 0
29400 33.9455 -113.5430 -1 0.00 0
30600 33.4461 -111.7876 -1 0.00 0
20600 33.8318 -111.9286 -1 0.00 0
30900 33.3979 -111.8140 -1 0.00 0
30600 33.4461 -111.7876 -1 0.00 0
The desired output would be:
20600, 33.8318, -111.9286, 3
30900, 33.3979, -111.8140, 2
29400, 33.9455, -113.5430, 1
30600, 33.4461, -111.7876, 2

Answer 1

You were close and you can do it all in awk, but if you are going to store the count based on field 1 and also have field 2 and field 3 available in END to output, you also need to store field 2 & 3 in arrays indexed by field 1 (or whatever field you are keeping count of). For example you could do:
awk -v OFS=', ' '
{ h[$1]++; i[$1]=$2; j[$1]=$3 }
END {
for (a in h)
print a, i[a], j[a], h[a]
}
' infile
Where h[$1] holds the count of the number of times field 1 is seen indexing the array with field 1. i[$1]=$2 captures field 2 indexed by field 1, and then j[$1]=$3 captures field 3 indexed by field 1.
Then within END all that is needed is to output field 1 (a the index of h), i[a] (field 2), j[a] (field 3), and finally h[a] the count of the number of times field 1 was seen.
Example Use/Output
Using your example data, you can just copy/middle-mouse-paste the code at the terminal with the correct filename, e.g.
$ awk -v OFS=', ' '
> { h[$1]++; i[$1]=$2; j[$1]=$3 }
> END {
> for (a in h)
> print a, i[a], j[a], h[a]
> }
> ' infile
20600, 33.8318, -111.9286, 3
29400, 33.9455, -113.5430, 1
30600, 33.4461, -111.7876, 2
30900, 33.3979, -111.8140, 2
Which provides the output desired. If you need to preserve the order of records in the order of the output you show, you can use string-concatenation to group fields 1, 2 & 3 as the index of the array and then output the array and index, e.g.
$ awk '{a[$1", "$2", "$3]++}END{for(i in a) print i ", " a[i]}' infile
20600, 33.8318, -111.9286, 3
30600, 33.4461, -111.7876, 2
29400, 33.9455, -113.5430, 1
30900, 33.3979, -111.8140, 2
Look things over and let me know if you have further questions.

Answer 2

GNU datamash is a very handy tool for working on groups of columnar data in files that makes this trivial to do.
Assuming your file uses tabs to separate columns like it appears to:
$ datamash -s --output-delimiter=, -g 1,2,3 count 3 < input.tsv
20600,33.8318,-111.9286,3
29400,33.9455,-113.5430,1
30600,33.4461,-111.7876,2
30900,33.3979,-111.8140,2
Though it's not much more complicated in awk, using a multi dimensional array:
$ awk 'BEGIN { OFS=SUBSEP="," }
{ group[$1,$2,$3]++ }
END { for (g in group) print g, group[g] }' input.tsv
29400,33.9455,-113.5430,1
30600,33.4461,-111.7876,2
20600,33.8318,-111.9286,3
30900,33.3979,-111.8140,2
If you want sorted output instead of random order for this one, if using GNU awk, add a PROCINFO["sorted_in"] = "#ind_str_asc" in the BEGIN block, or otherwise pipe the output through sort.
You can also get the same effect by pipelining a bunch of utilities (including awk and uniq):
$ sort -k1,3n input.tsv | cut -f1-3 | uniq -c | awk -v OFS=, '{ print $2, $3, $4, $1 }'
20600,33.8318,-111.9286,3
29400,33.9455,-113.5430,1
30600,33.4461,-111.7876,2
30900,33.3979,-111.8140,2