Re: sort

[Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net>]

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 03:42:13PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
> >>>>> "Rick" == Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net> writes:
> 
> Rick> Have you looked at 'uniq'?
> 
> uniq still needs the lines to be sorted:
> 
> # man uniq
> 
> [...]
> 
> NAME
>        uniq - remove duplicate lines from a *sorted* file
> 
> [...]
> 
> (emphasis mine)

Not really. It will remove adjacent duplicate lines whether or not the
file is sorted. For example, it will compress multiple blank lines to
single blank lines throughout a file. The title is wrong.

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