count number of entries perl program or Unix script

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi

I have a file with number of entries

name 1 123
name 1 345
name 1 65346
name2 3243
name2 24234
name 2 234234

so on .........

how to count total number of entries for name 1 and name2...and so on Please guide.

2

Try,

awk 'NF==2 {a[$1] += $2} NF==3 {a[$1$2] += $3} END { for (i in a) {print i "--" a}}' file