bash-4.1$ perl -e '$d[y///c].="#"for@ARGV;printf"%2d|$d[$_]
",$_ for+1..$#d' This is a test of the histogram function and how it will count the number of words of specific lengths. This sentence contains a long word 'complexity'.
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