Re: sort --unique

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> Bob Paige writes:
>
> > Where can I either get a different version of 'sort', or otherwise 
> > 'uniquifiy' my text file?
>
>
> $ cat file | sort | uniq
> j.
> --
> Jeremy L. Gaddis   <jeremy@gaddis.org>   <http://www.gaddis.org>

Wouldn't it be $ sort file | uniq > output

I think in the procmail man pages there are some examples of what they 
call, "Useless use of cat".  I often fall guilty to this same use of 'cat'.

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