Re: How to avoid duplicates with GnuSort ?

[Eric Blake]

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bug-textutils is obsolete, it was merged into bug-coreutils some time ago.

According to Peter Steiner on 9/9/2006 4:24 AM:
> Hello,
> 
> I downloaded the gnu tools archive
> 
> txt20b.zip from http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/
> and tried to use the sort.exe inside.

djgpp is probably not the best distribution to use.  Cygwin provides a
more up-to-date Unix-like environment on top of windows.

> 
> However I did not found a "avoid duplicates" option for the sort command.

The -u option is present, as required by POSIX, for some time now.

> 
> Is there such an option ?
> Or is there a newer version of the sort ?

Yes - the latest stable version of coreutils is 5.97, and beta 6.1 is also
available.

> 
> Thank you for the answer
> 
> Peter
> 

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