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The sortu program is a replacement for the sort and uniq programs. It is
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common for Unix script writers to want to count how many separate patterns
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are in a file. For example, if you have a list of addresses, you may want
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to see how many are from each state. So you cut out the state part, sort
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these, and then pass them through uniq -c. Sortu does all this for you in a
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fraction of the time.
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Sortu uses a hash table and some decent line processing to provide this
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functionality. For a relatively small number of keys, it can be signifcantly
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smaller than using sort, because it does not have to keep temporary files.
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If you are dealing with a large number of unique keys then sortu will run out
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of memory and stop. Sortu has some basic field and delimiter handling which
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should do most basic awk or cut features to separate out the field that you
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are sorting on.
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WWW: http://256.com/sources/sortu/
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