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Le 4 mai 2010 à 22:36, Yvan KOENIG a écrit :

Le 4 mai 2010 à 22:09, Mark J. Reed a écrit :

The list is too long for the shell command line - it's the echo that's failing, before it ever gets to sort. Try this:

do shell script "sort -n -u <<EOF" & return & (unsortedList as text) & return & "EOF"

If one of the elements of the list might be "EOF", pick a different string for the sentinel...

Thanks.

With EOF same error.

As 10.4 accept ASCII character

I defined the variable sentinel
and edited the instruction as :

do shell script "sort -n -u <<" & sentinel & return & (unsortedList as text) & return & sentinel

I tried with
set sentinel to ASCII character (1)
…
set sentinel to ASCII character (7)

and always got the same result.
As there is no Unicode character, I will try to import the text in an AppleWorks spreadsheet.
Numbers is desesperately slow with such a list.
15 minutes aren't sufficient and after that my patience is gone.

Done

With AppleWorks plus one formula, I was able to sort and drop duplicates.

The coelacanthus is well and alive ;-)

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 4 mai 2010 22:47:52