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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers words sort Post 302578710 by CarloM on Friday 2nd of December 2011 07:02:11 AM
Old 12-02-2011
Code:
# cat 1.txt
A file with
some words in it
# cat 2.txt
A different file with some
other words
#  awk 'BEGIN{OFS="\n"} {$0=tolower($0);$1=$1;print}' 1.txt 2.txt | sort -u
a
different
file
in
it
other
some
with
words

If you're getting different results then you need to show what they are, what the inputs are, and what command you're actually using. Just "is not working" is not a useful description...
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look(1) 							   User Commands							   look(1)

NAME
look - find words in the system dictionary or lines in a sorted list SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/look [-d] [-f] [-tc] string [filename] DESCRIPTION
The look command consults a sorted filename and prints all lines that begin with string. If no filename is specified, look uses /usr/share/lib/dict/words with collating sequence -df. look limits the length of a word to search for to 256 characters. OPTIONS
-d Dictionary order. Only letters, digits, TAB and SPACE characters are used in comparisons. -f Fold case. Upper case letters are not distinguished from lower case in comparisons. -tc Set termination character. All characters to the right of c in string are ignored. FILES
/usr/share/lib/dict/words spelling list ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWesu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
grep(1), sort(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 29 Mar 1994 look(1)
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