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What is the difference between “sort -u” and “sort | uniq”?

Everywhere I see someone needing to get a sorted, unique list, they always pipe to sort | uniq. I've never seen any examples where someone uses sort -u instead. Why not? What's the difference, and why ...
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sort ls output by users

On Linux, is there a way to sort ls output by users? What I try to achieve is something like this: user_a   file1 user_a   file2 user_b   another_file user_c   this_file user_c ...
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another question with sort in bash [duplicate]

How can I ignore the space in "Kuala Lumpur" when sorting this list? I cheated it by tabbing the columns and sorted on the tab which gives me the right results but I would like to know how to deal ...
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Sort with unequal whitespace in first column

I need to sort this list by name, high temp and low temp: Kuala Lumpur 78 56 Seoul 85 66 Karachi 95 75 Tokyo 85 60 Lahore 85 75 Manila 90 85 I figured since whitespace is the delimiter for a column ...
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4answers
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How to shift filename numbers without collisions?

Consider this list of files: $ touch index-{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}.txt If I want to shift them down so they start at zero, it's relatively easy: $ rename --verbose 's/^index-([1-9])\.txt$/$1/; ...
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1answer
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How can I remove duplicates in my .bash_history, preserving order?

I really enjoying using control+r to recursively search my command history. I've found a few good options I like to use with it: # ignore duplicate commands, ignore commands starting with a space ...
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3answers
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How to sort the string which combined with string + numeric using bash script?

This is the data what I want to sort. But sort treats the numeric to string, the data it no sorted as I expected. /home/files/profile1 /home/files/profile10 /home/files/profile11 ...
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3answers
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For each subfolder, sort files by name and rename them to sequential padded numbers (regardless of extension)

I have the following directory structure: . ├── event-a │   ├── album-a │   │   ├── a.jpg │   │   └── x.png │   └── album-b │   ├── a.jpg │   ├── x.png │   └── y.gif └── event-b ├── ...
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1answer
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Renaming files from bash in linux

There is a bunch of files of the following format hh-mm-ss.png where hh, mm, ss are hour, minute and second. How can I rename all these files in the directory in a sequential way from 1.png til n.png ...
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2answers
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How would I sort these directory names numerically?

I'm aware that I can somehow sort this output numerically (so cpu1/ follows cpu0/) ... I could probably get something to work eventually by splitting up the string various ways with awk, but is there ...
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3answers
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sorting filenames numerically when they have non-numeric prefix

I have files in the following format: x1 x2 ... x10 x11 ... x101 ... I want to rename these files, so they all have the same name length: x001 x002 ... x010 ... I can do this with files, that don't ...
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1answer
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Is there a search utility which can binary split search a large sorted (sequential) text file?

Yes, I know it sounds odd. Sequential and Binary-splits don't mix.. That is unless the sequence is the byte offset within the file itself... I've scrambled together a binary split search in bash ...
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1answer
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Is gnu coreutils sort broken?

Consider the following input to sort: cat > foo <<EOM D,,5014978 DD,,25 D,I,1972765530 D,Y,4223624 -,Y,71285059 YA,I,2 EOM Now try running sort foo The output is not sorted when trying ...