There are lots of ways to do this. If you want the output sorted by the key you're using to determine duplication, sort -u is the most logical choice. If you want to give preference to the 1st entry found with a given key and have output order match input order, awk provides a simple way to do it:
Use the 1st line if you have your separate files from server 1 and server 2; use the 2nd line if you have already created a merged file and want to remove duplicates from the merged file. Both of these will work with an unlimited number of input files as long as you don't reach ARG_MAX limitations on the number of input files you're feeding into awk.
As always, if you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk rather than /bin/awk or /usr/bin/awk.
Other ways to do this include writing a C (or other high level language program), perl, using the associative arrays that are available in some shells, and an endless number of much less efficient combinations using read (to get a list of keys), grep (to get a count of lines containing a key), and an editor (to remove all but one occurrence of duplicated keys).
i have a file with some 1000 entries it will contain entries like
1000,ram
2000,pankaj
1001,rahim
1000,ram
2532,govind
2000,pankaj
3000,venkat
2532,govind
what i want is i want to extract only the distinct rows from this file
so my output should contain only
1000,ram... (2 Replies)
I have data like this:
It's sorted by the 2nd field (TID).
envoy,90000000000000634600010001,04/11/2008,23:19:27,RB00266,0015,DETAIL,ERROR,
envoy,90000000000000634600010001,04/12/2008,04:23:45,RB00266,0015,DETAIL,ERROR,... (1 Reply)
hey all,
I need some help.
I have a text file with names in it.
My target is that if a particular pattern exists in that file more than once..then i want to rename all the occurences of that pattern by alternate patterns..
for e.g if i have PATTERN occuring 5 times then i want to... (3 Replies)
I have a log file with posts looking like this:
--
Messages can be delivered by different systems at different times. The id number is used to sort out duplicate messages. What I need is to strip the arrival time from each post, sort posts by id number, and reattach arrival time to respective... (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
Please check the following new requirement. I got data like the following in a file.
FILE_HEADER
01cbbfde7898410| 3477945| home| 1
01cbc275d2c122| 3478234| WORK| 1
01cbbe4362743da| 3496386| Rich Spare| 1
01cbc275d2c122| 3478234| WORK| 1
This is pipe separated file with... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file that I want to change the format of. It is a large file in rows but I want it to be comma separated (comma then a space).
The current file looks like this:
HI, Joe, Bob, Jack, Jack
After I would want to remove any duplicates so it would look like this:
HI, Joe,... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I am working with a huge amount of files in a Linux environment and I was trying to filter my data. Here's what my data looks like
Name............................Size
OLUSDN.gf.gif-1.JPEG.......5 kb
LKJFDA01.gf.gif-1.JPEG.....3 kb
LKJFDA01.gf.gif-2.JPEG.....1 kb... (7 Replies)
I have been using grep to output whole lines using a pattern file with identifiers (fileA):
fig|562.2322.peg.1
fig|562.2322.peg.3
fig|562.2322.peg.3
fig|562.2322.peg.3
fig|562.2322.peg.7
From fileB with corresponding identifiers in the second column:
NODE_0 fig|562.2322.peg.1 peg ... (2 Replies)
i hav two files like
i want to remove/delete all the duplicate lines in file2 which are viz unix,unix2,unix3.I have tried previous post also,but in that complete line must be similar.In this case i have to verify first column only regardless what is the content in succeeding columns. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: sagar_1986
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igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)