Re: can't the shell do a better job

[Aaron Hall]

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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