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Old September 10th 18, 01:59 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Philip Herlihy
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Default Merge text files & then sort unique in DOS
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On 9/4/2018 11:16 PM, Grease Monkey wrote:
Merging text files is easy in DOS
for %f in (*.txt) do type "%f" output.txt

But how do you sort unique in DOS?


MS DOS has a SORT.EXE if I remember correctly... it's such a long time
ago....

Yes, but it doesn't have a /unique option.

Powershell can do this, as can the Bash shell if you install that.

(only now seeing that this wasn't sent when I expected it to be!)

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Phil, London