On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Charles Curley <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 18:31:40 +0100
> Olli Ries <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I might be missing a detail, but what about:
> >
> > $> cat A B | uniq > C
>
> Um, you are missing a detail. From the man page for uniq:
>
>        Note: 'uniq' does not detect repeated lines unless they  are
>        adjacent. You  may want to sort the input first, or use `sort
>        -u' without `uniq'. Also, comparisons honor the rules specified
>        by `LC_COLLATE'.
>
> Otherwise, not far from what I suggested.


yeah, my bad - and sort -u keeps you even 1 step farther from the useless
use of pipes award (compared to cat | sort | uniq)

O.

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