Re: sort

[Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net>]

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:06:33PM -0300, O Senhor wrote:
>   How can i delete equal lines from a file, without sort it?
>   If i use sort -u, the command clean up the repeat lines, but sort my
> file (ascendent). I don't want this. I need my file in original form.

It's fairly trivial to determine if adjacent lines are identical but if
they are scattered throughout the file then it becomes much more
difficult. That's why it's advantageous to sort the file first.

Have you looked at 'uniq'?

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