Posted by: Anonymous
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on July 23, 2008 03:01 PM
Sort will take a file name so "cat /etc/passwd | sort" can be replaced by "sort /etc/passwd".
Also, I tend to push sort as far to the end of the pipeline as possible so that I don't have to sort as much data.
For instance "gawk '$3 >= 500 {print $1 }' FS=":" /etc/passwd | sort"
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 97.88.198.245] on July 23, 2008 03:01 PMAlso, I tend to push sort as far to the end of the pipeline as possible so that I don't have to sort as much data.
For instance "gawk '$3 >= 500 {print $1 }' FS=":" /etc/passwd | sort"
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