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unix command to sort works in a text by dictionary order
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gistfile1.sh
tr -sc 'A-Za-z' '\n' < filename.txt | sort | uniq | sort -d
tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' < filename.txt | tr -sc 'a-z' '\n'| sort | uniq | sort -d | less # normalizes to lowercase first
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