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Rev

Thanks for your answer.. +1 .. I don't know if accept my answer because yours is not unix-linux specific and my answer is a bit faster, as far as I tested it.. what do you think?

gc5
– gc5

2014-02-12 13:12:06 +00:00
Commented Feb 12, 2014 at 13:12
You welcome, there are of course other solutions with more unix specific tools. But this seems a good use of Python's in operator.

Timo
– Timo

2014-02-12 13:21:01 +00:00
Commented Feb 12, 2014 at 13:21
There is python command line wrapper to make it more unix like, with piping built in, named pyp: code.google.com/p/pyp I think it is trivial to make this solution more unix like one liner tool.

IBr
– IBr

2014-11-14 09:15:44 +00:00
Commented Nov 14, 2014 at 9:15

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