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Old 12-05-2009
Append only unique

Given FileA:
AAA
BBB
CCC
DDD
EEE

..and FileB
DDD
EEE
FFF
GGG

what is the best to combine the files without having duplicate lines?
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Old 12-05-2009
sort will do..
Code:
sort -u fileA fileB

 
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