Eliminating duplicate lines

[Jim Herrmann]

I had never heard of uniq, but sort is quite common.  I think that uniq 
also requires the input to be sorted if you want to get rid of all 
duplicates.  No?  However, sort -u won't give you a count like uniq - c 
will.  Good point.

Thanks,
Jim

Luke-Jr wrote:

>On Friday 23 December 2005 04:35, Jim Herrmann wrote:
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>>Thanks to Ron also.  This may be easier to remember since it uses more
>>common commands.
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>How is 'sort' and more common than 'uniq'? I really only use the two in 
>combination (uniq -c | sort -n) anyway...
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