[expert] Who Broke Sort?

2002-09-05 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ok, it's been a long time since I've needed to do this, and maybe I just forgot how. But: To sort out duplicate lines in a text file, didn't sort -u do the trick? Or am I getting fuzzy old? I have a large text file that I receive on a regular basis ( a couple times a week). I need to clean it

Re: [expert] Who Broke Sort?

2002-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 18:50 -0400, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Ok, it's been a long time since I've needed to do this, and maybe I just forgot how. But: To sort out duplicate lines in a text file, didn't sort -u do the trick? Or am I getting fuzzy old? I have a large text file that I

Re: [expert] Who Broke Sort?

2002-09-05 Thread David Relson
At 06:50 PM 9/5/02, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Ok, it's been a long time since I've needed to do this, and maybe I just forgot how. But: To sort out duplicate lines in a text file, didn't sort -u do the trick? Or am I getting fuzzy old? I have a large text file that I receive on a regular basis ( a

Re: [expert] Who Broke Sort?

2002-09-05 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 19:06, David Relson wrote: At 06:50 PM 9/5/02, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Ok, it's been a long time since I've needed to do this, and maybe I just forgot how. But: To sort out duplicate lines in a text file, didn't sort -u do the trick? Or am I getting fuzzy old? I