Remove duplicate lines using uniq

Posted by on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009  |  7,749 views

Display all the lines sorted in alphabetic order:

sort file_name

Now show only the unique lines:

sort file_name | uniq

And finally save the unique lines in a new file:

sort file_name | uniq > file_name_uniques

Posted by on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 10:27 pm and filed under Linux with tags , . You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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