Re: [expert] Who Broke Sort?

2002-09-05 Thread Ric Tibbetts
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 19:06, David Relson wrote: > At 06:50 PM 9/5/02, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > >Ok, it's been a long time since I've needed to do this, and maybe I just > >forgot how. > > > >But: > > > >To sort out duplicate lines in a text file, didn't "sort -u" do the > >trick? Or am I getting fuz

Re: [expert] Who Broke Sort?

2002-09-05 Thread David Relson
At 06:50 PM 9/5/02, Ric Tibbetts wrote: >Ok, it's been a long time since I've needed to do this, and maybe I just >forgot how. > >But: > >To sort out duplicate lines in a text file, didn't "sort -u" do the >trick? Or am I getting fuzzy & old? > >I have a large text file that I receive on a regular

Re: [expert] Who Broke Sort?

2002-09-05 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 18:50 -0400, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Ok, it's been a long time since I've needed to do this, and maybe I just > forgot how. > > But: > > To sort out duplicate lines in a text file, didn't "sort -u" do the > trick? Or am I getting fuzzy & old? > > I have a large text file t

[expert] Who Broke Sort?

2002-09-05 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Ok, it's been a long time since I've needed to do this, and maybe I just forgot how. But: To sort out duplicate lines in a text file, didn't "sort -u" do the trick? Or am I getting fuzzy & old? I have a large text file that I receive on a regular basis ( a couple times a week). I need to clean