grepping distinct lines from many text files ?

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:02:54 -0500
Charles Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:

> On Jan 20, 2004, at 1:56 PM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> >
> > CUCU=`cat /path/do/dir/* | some_filer_program`
> >
> > and have in $CUCU the distinct lines from all the files.
> 
> Try:
> 
> CUCU=`cat /path/to/files/* | sort | uniq`

Thanks, that is what I was looking for.

I've did a apropos unique and didn't thought to do an apropos uniq :">


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