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Linux tools to treat files as sets and perform set operations on them
Does anyone know of any linux tool specifically designed to treat files as sets and perform set operations on them? Like difference, intersection, etc?
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Is there a way to make perl -i not clobber symlinks?
A friend of mine points out that if you do:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/foo/bar/' somefile
when "somefile" is actually a symlink, perl does just what the docs say it will do:
It does this by renaming ...
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Doing two things with output from a command
I have a program texcount that outputs the number of words in my LaTeX document. I can also pipe the output of this to sed to make the newlines TeX linebreaks and write this to a file which I can then ...
