danny - 5:54 am on Mar 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

/home/mysite/mysite/babes.txt ¦ sort ¦ uniq > /home/mysite/babes.txt

You can't do this in one line -- it will clobber babes.txt before it finishes reading from it!

You want something like

sort <babes.txt ¦ uniq >temp; mv temp babes.txt