scripting fun

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Thu Jun 5 20:17:58 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:10 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Thu June 5 2008 11:58:42 Derek Broughton wrote:
> > > > join -v2 < (sort <~/temp/blocked.txt | uniq ) ...
> >
> > and what's the input redirector to sort doing?
> 
> The name of a temporary file (or socket or named pipe ...)
> of the output of the "sort <~/temp/blocked.txt | uniq"
> pipeline is substituted as an argument to the join.

But do not put whitespace after the "<" and before the "(".  Otherwise
you will get a syntax error.
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