[H-CHAT] Re: [H-GEN] Encrypting a tar backup

[Anthony Towns]

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:15:36AM -0400, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> Perhaps a good discriminator would be whether one would use sort -u?

sort -u can be more efficient than sort | uniq -- for large amounts of
data, sort will use temporary files on /tmp -- adding -u can allow those
temporary files to be smaller, whereas |uniq can't.

Cheers,
aj

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