From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-01-06T06:28:08+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you sort a text file?

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Danny Abc wrote:

> I'm new to Ruby and was wondering how to sort a text file?
>
> With UNIX scripts, I just use "cat input.txt | sort > output.txt".


   open("output.txt"){|f| f.write IO::readlines("input.txt").sort}

-a
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