On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone has any problems with the sort utility ? I just tried to > sort a file of about 3,100,000 lines and discovered after the sort that > about 1100 lines had been duplicated in the output file. The sort utility > under linux also does not behave the same as the solaris version [although > the solaris version is also peculiar in other ways]. Try to use sort with the -u option; this should supress multiple identical lines in the output. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---