On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 15:48:17 -0700, Ron Hawkins wrote: > >A >B > >Just omit the duplicates, but keep the 1st one... > >> On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:24:43 +0300, Itschak Mugzach wrote: >> >> >Or sort with omit duplicates... >> > Sorting would seem to be counterproductive when comparing files. Two files which differ only in the order of their records will appear identical when sorted.
Of course, only if the files are considered as sets (not multisets) of records, with order being irrelvant, sorting is useful. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
