Thus spake Jay Kline (list at slushpupie.com): > Its been a while since I have needed this, but I need to sort some files, and > remove duplicate line entries. I thought sort had that functionality built > in, but in searching the man pages it dosnt seem to. The problem is I have > to do this on different systems and dont want to write custom scripts, as > there are too many different systems to distribute anything like that. I > would not mind typing a simple 1-2 line script, but I was sure there was some > standard unix utility that does this. Anyone know it? The command you want is 'uniq'. $ sort file1 file2 | uniq Rob