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Old 02-05-2007
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Originally Posted by mahalakshmi
It's working fine. I would like to know about the -u -k optiosn in the sort command. Could you please explain.

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-k 1,1 sort the content of inputfile using first column as the primary sort key and -u is there to display uniq values only. Read the man sort for more details.