23 Dec
2005
23 Dec
'05
3:54 p.m.
On Friday 23 December 2005 15:23, Monty J. Harder wrote:
On 12/22/05, Luke-Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
On Friday 23 December 2005 04:35, Jim Herrmann wrote:
Thanks to Ron also. This may be easier to remember since it uses more common commands.
How is 'sort' and more common than 'uniq'? I really only use the two in combination (uniq -c | sort -n) anyway...
That's backwards. You have to put the *sort* to the left of the *uniq* for it to work, because *uniq* requires that its input already be sorted. The beauty of the Unix philosophy is that *uniq* doesn't have to know about sorting, because *sort* already does.
Not quite backwards, read it again-- you're right that it does require presorted content, though.