Re: Inserting Line Numbers into Existing Text

On Apr 4, 5:31 pm, "Daniel M. Eldridge" <deldri...@eldridge.to> wrote:
> I have a file that consists of approx 400K lines and 25762K chars
>
> this work is the result of someone who has copied existing files onto itself
> multiple times.
>
> In an effort to "decrypt" this mess I am:
> a) inserting .pp to indicate paragraph beginnings
> b) replacing sentence endings with \r so that each line consists of one
> "sentence."
> c) sorting all of the lines so that I can use uniq to generate a list of
> unique sentences.
>

Note that Vim's :sort command allows you to eliminate duplicate lines
as a built-in command argument. It also lets you skip a regex pattern
when sorting lines.

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