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Re: Bug in unix sort command


From: Evan Hunt
Subject: Re: Bug in unix sort command
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:30:10 -0800
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> It seems that non-printing chars, e.g. a space at the end of the word, are 
> included in the comparison for dups. Could there be an option that 
> compares printing chars only?

"sort -k1,1 -u <file>" limits the comparison to field #1 of each line.

Evan Hunt




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