Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:06:44 -0800 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grepping distinct lines from many text files ? Message-ID: <20040120110644.688e77bb.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20040120205621.05fc84da@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> References: <20040120205621.05fc84da@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:56:21 +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> wrote: > Hi, > > > I know I have done this before, but I don't remember how ;) > > I have a collection of text files in one directory, and each file can > contain one or more lines of text, of which any of them could also be in > another file and what I want is to do something like: > > CUCU=`cat /path/do/dir/* | some_filer_program` > > and have in $CUCU the distinct lines from all the files. > > Something like SQL's SELECT DISTINCT FROM .... > > Any pointers ? man 1 uniq ? -Chris
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