On 1 Oct 1998, Peter Makholm wrote: > Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Lets say I have two text files... Both having several quotes, one per > > line. Each file has unique quotes, but both also have some quotes which > > are the same. What is a method to get from these two text files, a third > > file, which has all of the unique quotes, and only one of each of the same > > quotes.. i.e.: > > sort -u File1 File2 > File3 > > [-u is for uniq] > > If File1 and File2 is sorted "sort -m -u File1 File2 > File3" might be > faster. > > You better read the manpage for sort. Im sitting at a HP-UX and I > don't think it's the gnu sort we have.
Yipeee :) thanks... just what i needed... Yep, you had the right options, looks like HP-UX and gnu sort are similar. -m would have been a negligible help, the files are only 10k or so each. Thanks again, Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If at first you don't succeed, you must be using Windows. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian GNU/Linux.... Ooohh You are missing out!