Eliminating duplicate lines

[Monty J. Harder]

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.


On 12/22/05, Luke-Jr <luke at 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...
>
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