Hi Kaz, The 'Unix way' is to have lots of small utilities that do one thing well, then connect them via pipes. It could be that the optimised sort algorithm is hampered if it has to remove duplicates too, or that the maintainers want to draw a line on added functionality.
Personally, 95%* of the time that I want to use uniq, I also want to sort any input. and 70% of the time, I also want to do 'wc -l' on the uniq lines found. Sort, on the other hand, I regularly use without uniq. Should I therefore want uniq to have a sort and wc functionality added? Not for me thanks. I like pipes. I agree with the targetted funtionality of the 'core' utilities like sort, and search for other solutions e.g. scripting when life gets more complex. - Pad. Unix pipes. You too can do parallel processing on that quad opteron server :-) * All peacentages shown is accrutt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
