<div>That's backwards. You have to put the <strong>sort</strong> to the left of the <strong>uniq</strong> for it to work, because <strong>uniq</strong> requires that its input already be sorted. The beauty of the Unix philosophy is that
<strong>uniq</strong> doesn't have to know about sorting, because <strong>sort</strong> already does. </div>
<div><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Luke-Jr</b> <<a href="mailto:luke@dashjr.org">luke@dashjr.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Friday 23 December 2005 04:35, Jim Herrmann wrote:<br>> Thanks to Ron also. This may be easier to remember since it uses more
<br>> common commands.<br><br>How is 'sort' and more common than 'uniq'? I really only use the two in<br>combination (uniq -c | sort -n) anyway...<br></blockquote></div>