On 19 Mar 2019, mark lewis said the following...
 
 ml> if you're on linux, you might find this li'l script handy... it sorts the
 ml> taglines and removes the duplicates... just tell it the name of the file
 ml> containing the taglines... it expects the file to have a .txt
 ml> extension... the results are output into filename.sorted.uniq.txt so you
 ml> don't lose the original until you're ready to remove/overwrite it...

Thank you. 

That script is quick too! It sorted 51306 lines to 36611 lines in about .5
seconds!

 ml> the script is 26 lines long... i'm pretty sure wordwrap will bite and
 ml> need to be corrected...

There was only one line that wordwrap messed up. Line 24. It was simple
enough to straighten out. :)

I really should spend some more time learning the scripting languages...


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