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Re: Sorting a file and printing it back onto itself

by kwoff (Friar)
on Nov 18, 2001 at 04:53 UTC ( #126066=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Sorting a file and printing it back onto itself

One-liner :) 
$ perl -i.bak -0777pe'$_=join"\n",sort(split /\n/),""' users.dat
$ cat users.dat.bak
me
you
them
she
he
it
we
$cat users.dat
he
it
me
she
them
we
you

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