From: Jim <narf968@...>
Date: 2006-01-08T17:08:01+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you sort a text file?


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".
>
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Why can't I just let these things go?

i use:

$ sort -o outfile.txt infile.txt

No pipes, and you can use the same file name if you don't want to keep
both files.