thanks

James

j a m e s wrote:

Try reading the man page of 'sort'.

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yes, using 'sort -u' would solve the sorting problem.

still figuring out how to list the words from a file.

thanks
James

So your problem is that you have several words per line?

How about

tr -c '[:alpha:]' '[\n*]' <file | sort -u

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Tapani Tarvainen

Depends on what you mean by "words".  Is "1234" a word?  If not,
then you can use deroff:

   deroff -w file | sort -u

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take a look at sort and uniq

sort -u <filename>
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Stein Arne Storslett

for i in $(sort -u $1)
do
    words="$words\n$i"
done
echo $words | sort

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