From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-01-08T08:58:57+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you sort a text file?

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 11:23:00PM +0900, Andreas Eder wrote:
> >>>>> "Danny" == Danny Abc <dannyabc@comcast.net> writes:
> 
>     Danny> I'm new to Ruby and was wondering how to sort a text file?
>     Danny> With UNIX scripts, I just use "cat input.txt | sort > output.txt".
> 
> Why not sort <input.txt >output.txt?
> That cat is totally superfluous.

You don't need that input redirect.  Input takes a filename as an
argument, so you can simply do this:
  sort input.txt > output.txt

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Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]

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