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.
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