Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:53:32 -0500 From: parv <parv@pair.com> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grepping distinct lines from many text files ? Message-ID: <20040121235332.GA392@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <4090DBB9-4B7B-11D8-8D97-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <20040120205621.05fc84da@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <4090DBB9-4B7B-11D8-8D97-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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in message <4090DBB9-4B7B-11D8-8D97-003065ABFD92@mac.com>, 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... CUCU=`sort /path/to/files/* | uniq` ...even (but do see sort(1))... CUCU=`sort -u /path/to/files/*` - Parv --
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