question about about Bourne Shell programming

[thungmail]

I would like to know what does the code below do

#!/cs/local/bin/sh
(cat $1; cat $2) | sort -r | uniq -d | cut -f1,4

can anybody explain it to me

[kaarthikeyapreyan]

I would like to know what does the code below do

#!/cs/local/bin/sh
(cat $1; cat $2) | sort -r | uniq -d | cut -f1,4

can anybody explain it to me

This code gets two file names from the command prompt
if the contents in your file $1(first arg) and $2(second arg) contains numerals or alphabets or alphanumerals they would be sorted in a reverse order listing all the lines without repetition and cut the fields 1-4 from the output(perhaps all the lines would be printed cause no delimiter is specified)

[gpraghuram]

I would like to know what does the code below do

#!/cs/local/bin/sh
(cat $1; cat $2) | sort -r | uniq -d | cut -f1,4

can anybody explain it to me

Whenever i encounter a command like this, i would break it into different commands and then see what every command does.



Raghuram