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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Why do we use sort before compare ? Post 302257877 by otheus on Thursday 13th of November 2008 09:23:40 AM
Old 11-13-2008
The short answer is: it's the only way to find a reasonably small change-set between two files. For the long answer, perhaps you should look up research papers on sorting and searching. Or, take some phone books and try it yourself.
 

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