On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 21:19, magnet wrote:
> On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:55 am, Benjamin Jeeves wrote:
> > Perl will do it but you will need to make the scripted or there might be
> > one on the net have a look
> >
> > On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 9:46 am, magnet wrote:
> > > I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and
> > > am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines
> > > and leave a condensed file. Can anyone suggest a good solution?
> > > Thanks :)
> 
> Perl... hmm, didn't think of that. I know squat about writing perl so I'm off 
> to google for a solution. Cheers for the *very* prompt reply Benjamin! :))

I've just done a little reading and it appears that this can be done
very simply at the command prompt...

try:

sort filename | uniq > sortedfilename

Regards,

John...
        
        

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