[mplspm]: In a sorted list [better]

[Dion Almaer]

or sort -u file > new_file

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mpls at pm.org [mailto:owner-mpls at pm.org]On Behalf Of Jeff
> Gleixner
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:00 PM
> To: mpls at pm.org
> Subject: Re: [mplspm]: In a sorted list [better]
> 
> 
> > For
> > the curious, my bigger problem was to take all the words in a
> > 16 MB text
> > file (there was one word on each line) and remove all of the
> > duplicates. [...]
> 
> 
> Unless you need to use Perl for some specific reason (an
> assignment for class? :-), you could simply use Unix utilities
> already written to do what you need.
> 
> % sort < file > uniq -o new_file
> 
> It won't get any faster than that.. :-)
> 
> See ya
> 
> 
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