in reply to Re: sort utility key specification
in thread sort utility key specification

the ability to only have 1 copy of the line in the output.... prefer '-1' over '-u'

-u is already enabled -- it's not mentioned as this post was only in reference to the key specifications. I can see no reason not to have -1 as an alias.


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The start of some sanity?

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Re^3: sort utility key specification
by flexvault (Monsignor) on Apr 21, 2012 at 15:35 UTC

    Great . . .

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