[Gllug] sort & uniq

[Christian Smith]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Daniel Andersson wrote:

>
>that was the problem
>thank you very much (and to all the other ones that found it as well :)
>
>may i ask how you found the \r?

$ sort testfile | uniq -c > file
$ vi file

The \r was shown as a ^M on the end of the line. od -c would have also 
found the \r.

Once we knew what the dodgy character was, it was a simple case of finding 
it in the origional file.

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>ta
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>/ d
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