comm '! sort file1' '! sort file2'

[chris]

In article <830003 at hpcnoe.UUCP>, jason at hpcnoe.UUCP (Jason Zions) writes:
> > / ado at elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) /  8:20 am  Sep 22, 1986 /
> > I regularly want to run "comm" on a pair of unsorted files.
> > 	[ ... ]
> > All fine and dandy.  But then I got to thinking. . .that what I'd *really*
> > like to be able to do is use a command like
> > 
> > 	comm '! sort file1' '! sort file2'
> > 

It can be done easily on SYSV, using fifo's. I keep one around in my home
directory for this kind of things.  This is what you do, after creating
the fifo (mknod -p ~/fifo).

sort file1 > ~/fifo & sort file2 | comm - ~/fifo

				Chris

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