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Originally Posted by abhishekarun123 View Post
HI,
I would like to know if there if any sorting command which uniquifies the list but does not arrange in alphabetical order.
ex- I have
b
b
a
b

Output I want is :
b
a

I am trying sort -u and this does the sorting in alphabetical order.

Please help friends
Are you open to awk ? If so, try

Code:
awk '!x[$1]++' list.txt