On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
# Yeah, why not? If I had to do this here, or if the list were very long (over
# 1000 entries, say), I'd write a perl program to read the file into a sorted
# array, discarding duplicates along the way, then write out a new, clean file.
#
# If the list was short and I was feeling lazy (or didn't know perl), I'd use
# "sort" to process the file and output a new copy, then use vi (or whatever
# text editor you prefer) to delete the dups by hand.
Is there a reason why
cat inname | sort | uniq > outname
isn't appropriate?
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