"Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If the log has a lot of repeated lines in its original state then > running uniq twice, once up front to reduce what needs to be sorted, > might be quicker? > > uniq log_file | sort| uniq | wc -l > > - Pad. >
Why would the second running of uniq remove any additional lines that weren't removed in the first pass? For that matter, if this is a log file, wont every line have a timestamp, making duplicates extremely unlikely? -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
