sorting file and unique commnad.. - Shell Programming and Scripting

amon · #1 (**permalink**) 02-15-2006

hello everyone..

I was wondering is there a effective way to sort file that contains colomns and numeric one.

file

218900012192 8938929 8B8DF3664 1E7E2D59D5 0000 26538 1234 74024415
218900012979 8938929 8B8DF3664 1E7E2D59D5 0000 26538 1234 74024415
218900012992 8938929 8B8DF3664 1E7E2D59D5 0000 26538 1234 74024415
218900012992 8938929 8B8DF3664 1E7E2D59D5 0000 26538 1234 74024415
218900012972 8938929 8B8DF3664 1E7E2D59D5 0000 26538 1234 74024415
218900012992 8938929 8B8DF3664 1E7E2D59D5 0000 26538 1234 74024415
218900010692 8938929 8B8DF3664 1E7E2D59D5 0000 26538 1234 74024415
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to sort and remove in this case lines 4 and 6 (becouse they R dupicated in file)using unique command I was trying to to something with that command but it does not work.

thanks a lot

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 02-15-2006

Code:

sort -u file.name

bigearsbilly · #3 (**permalink**) 02-16-2006

rtfm

uniq only works on sorted files.
as vino says sort -u will do it

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