on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:50:27PM -0600, Scott E . Graves (scottg@lintuit.com) wrote:
> If I had a list containing redundant entries, what command could I use
> suppress the duplications. Here's an example list:
>
> man
> man
> ls
> df
> find
> find
> find
>
> This would be obtaining using `sa -u | grep scottg | awk '{print $8}' ` to
> list all programs executed by user scottg. I need to condense the list to:
>
> man
> ls
> df
> find
uniq, as suggested, but it only removes *consecutive* unique entries.
I'd suggest:
$ sort -u < list > uniqlist
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