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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by 16s on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @10:01AM (#4073849)
They are already unique and sorted.

sort -u combo_not.txt | wc -l 6458020

wc -l combo_not.txt 6458020

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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by biot on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @02:05PM (#4075185)
I assume the first line you meant to pipe it through uniq afer the sort? Otherwise the only thing you've demonstrated is that sorting a file doesn't change its line count. :)
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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by JoshTriplett on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @03:58PM (#4075866)
"sort -u" means "sort and uniq".
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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by biot on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @04:08PM (#4075926)
Wow, I can't believe I was never aware of this. Thank you!
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