On Saturday 06 July 2013 10:52 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 9:13 AM, ShanthaKumar <[email protected]> wrote: >> --- On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 07:38 PM, steve <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> cat somefile.txt | sort | tee sorted.txt | uniq >> >> This reminds me once I was given UUoC award [1].
hehe, that's nice, thanks for the award ;-). Yeah, i just typed that out and realized after I saw the mail on the list. >> If I'm right, this could be, >> >> $ sort somefile.txt | tee sorted.txt | uniq > > FWIW, GNU sort has <-u|--unique> option to remove the duplicate entries. > ehe, but that wouldn't demonstrate the point which was being made in the context, ie: capturing the intermediary sorted output in a text file before using uniq to remove duplicates. cheers, - steve _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
