[Gllug] Treats for Windows refugees

Rev Simon Rumble simon at rumble.net
Mon Sep 5 09:54:34 UTC 2005


On 5/9/2005, "John Hearns" <john.hearns at streamline-computing.com> wrote:

>Piping the output of one command into another?

Ahh yes, another of the power features of *nix.  Small tools that do just
one thing, but do it very very well.

>Quickest example which springs to mind for a decent demo is
>the PBM tools.

The standard example is, but it's also useful to demonstrate it can be
done with binaries too:
sort <list_of_items.txt | uniq > unique_list_of_terms.txt
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