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This won't work if the input contains shell wildcards (you need to add set -f), and treats punctuation as part of words (which can be fixed awkwardly by adding punctuation characters to IFS — good luck trying to support non-ASCII character sets). This won't be good with very large input files, as it stores the whole file in memory (sort is smarter).

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

2012-05-21 00:21:02 +00:00
Commented May 21, 2012 at 0:21

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