I need to write a shell script "cmn" that, given an integer k, print the k most common words in descending order of frequency.
Example Usage:
user@ubuntu:/$ cmn 4 < example.txt 
Please show us what you have tried so far.
I am new to shell scripting. I have no idea how to proceed about it.
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