At 2007-09-07 08:58AM, "gin_g" wrote:
> I have several text files which in which many of the files ending
> records overlap with the beginning records of another file. I'd like
> to combine two of the files so that the records are continuous, and
> this means that the overlap in one of the files needs to be removed.
> What's a good way to do this?

At 2007-09-07 09:02AM, "Miles" wrote:
> cat file1 file2 | sort -u

At 2007-09-07 09:06AM, "Jeroen van Nieuwenhuizen" wrote:
> sort file1.txt file2.txt | uniq

How about:
sort -u file1 file2

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