-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Maximilian Haeussler on 5/17/2008 8:36 AM: | | Let's say I only want the 50 most common lines of a file: | cat textfile | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 50 | tr -s ' ' | cut -f2
Unrelated to your report, but this is a useless use of cat. Why not: sort < textfile | uniq -c ... - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgu8HwACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCT0QCdHo9+eVgsK6XUrHjMuyHe3xkD mVMAoNd7Sdskvz7IhNmPcejguvneCeH5 =ed2u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
