> Thanks for all of the good info. Okay, how about
> this: I ran this cron job on July 4th, and I shouldn't
> have, so I have a 500 line file with a dozen or so
> redundant entries. Anybody know a good way to clean
> them out? I sorted the file so the pairs show up but
> they're scattered. No biggee. I think my script will
> pass on the redundant ones without too much trouble.
cat file | sort | uniq > newfile
Mark
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