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So would the solution here be to sort twice? Once for catching uniqs properly, and again for display purposes?

MrDuk
– MrDuk

2015-11-02 17:46:13 +00:00
Commented Nov 2, 2015 at 17:46
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If you just want the data sorted (as in sort | uniq | sort) then the second sort doesn't do anything (uniq doesn't unsort it). If you want it sorted by the count (as in sort | uniq -c | sort -n), then yes you'd need two sorts because the second sort order is potentially different.

BowlOfRed
– BowlOfRed

2015-11-02 17:48:19 +00:00
Commented Nov 2, 2015 at 17:48

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