Re: can't the shell do a better job

From: Aaron Hall (lisps_at_vitaphone.net)
Date: 01/08/05

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To: Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Ron Johnson wrote:
    > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 19:54 -0600, Aaron Hall wrote:
    >> * bash-style process substitution: diff =(sort file1) =(sort file2)
    >> instead of:
    >> sort file1 > file1.sorted
    >> sort file2 > file2.sorted
    >> diff file1 file2
    >
    > Well that's spiffy...

    It'd be more spiffy if I'd gotten the last line correct. :)

         diff file1.sorted file2.sorted

    - Aaron 

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