Re: grepping distinct lines from many text files ?

2004-01-21 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Charles Swiger thusly... On Jan 20, 2004, at 1:56 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: CUCU=`cat /path/do/dir/* | some_filer_program` and have in $CUCU the distinct lines from all the files. Try: CUCU=`cat /path/to/files/* | sort | uniq` Better yet...

grepping distinct lines from many text files ?

2004-01-20 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
Hi, I know I have done this before, but I don't remember how ;) I have a collection of text files in one directory, and each file can contain one or more lines of text, of which any of them could also be in another file and what I want is to do something like: CUCU=`cat /path/do/dir/* |

Re: grepping distinct lines from many text files ?

2004-01-20 Thread Chris Pressey
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:56:21 +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I know I have done this before, but I don't remember how ;) I have a collection of text files in one directory, and each file can contain one or more lines of text, of which any of them could also be in

Re: grepping distinct lines from many text files ?

2004-01-20 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 20, 2004, at 1:56 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: CUCU=`cat /path/do/dir/* | some_filer_program` and have in $CUCU the distinct lines from all the files. Try: CUCU=`cat /path/to/files/* | sort | uniq` -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: grepping distinct lines from many text files ?

2004-01-20 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:02:54 -0500 Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 20, 2004, at 1:56 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: CUCU=`cat /path/do/dir/* | some_filer_program` and have in $CUCU the distinct lines from all the files. Try: CUCU=`cat /path/to/files/* | sort | uniq`