Re: can't the shell do a better job

[Aaron Hall <lisps@vitaphone.net>]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 19:54 -0600, Aaron Hall wrote:
> > * bash-style process substitution: diff =(sort file1) =(sort file2)
> >    instead of:
> >       sort file1 > file1.sorted
> >       sort file2 > file2.sorted
> >       diff file1 file2
>
> Well that's spiffy...

It'd be more spiffy if I'd gotten the last line correct. :)

    diff file1.sorted file2.sorted

- Aaron

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