Jeff Woods wrote:
>
> At 02:42 PM 7/12/2002, Jeff Kell wrote:
> >If you just want to remove the duplicates, it's easier:
> >
> >shell/ix> cat OLDFILE NEWFILE|sort|uniq>NODUPE
>
> Since sort can take a list of files to sort as arguments, that's a wasted
> use of cat. And sort also has the -u option which removes duplicate keys,
> so that's a wasted use of uniq; use:
>
> sort -u FILE [FILE2 ...] >NODUPE
OK, I hand off the shortest answer award to Jeff Woods :-) Kudos.
Jeff
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