-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 08:06:47PM +0000, Curt wrote:
[...] > Not knowing anything I came up with (after some research): > > sort -u < test.txt | tr '\n' ',' > > No sed. If you don't need the space after the comma then yes, sed is superfluous. Reminds me that half of my work as a programmer is done talking to the customer ;-) > My list has a comma at the beginning as well as at the end, though (with > no newline, either). > > But if we were going to the moon with this I would be economizing that > supernumerary process. > > ;-) :-)) Remember the size of the computers which went to the moon 1969. For tr there's space (without unicode). For sed... hmmm. For Perl? Hell, no! Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlrmLEoACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaJ6QCfZLKgwpCnBXit01v/+JzyXpx+ ZOIAniY2EpMhbzsE0bYN2rsp0+MLwIUY =h88w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----