[NTLUG:Discuss] Need help debugging simple script commands

[Steve Baker]

Rick Matthews wrote:
>>Don't know if you realize it or not, but there is an option within
>>sort itself that will suppress output of duplicate lines:
> 
> 
> Yes, I know it's there, and I've used it before, but I had not tried
> it here. 
> 
> I just ran a test using:
> 
> sort -u -o domains.uniq domains
> 
> and got the same exact results as the other method.  The dups are 
> still there.

Duplicates usually result from differences in the white space (eg a tab in one
record and a bunch of spaces in the other - or trailing white space on one
and not on the other).

Toss a '-i' in there - but I don't know whether that only affects the sort order
or whether it also matters for the duplicated record thing.

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