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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Filtering duplicate lines Post 15005 by AreaMan on Friday 8th of February 2002 01:57:13 PM
Old 02-08-2002
Hammer & Screwdriver

Cheers, I think this is the inevitable conlusion/solution. I was hoping to get away with a ready made unix command. Uniq showed such promise.

I have a few other things to be doing till I have to cross this particular bridge again.

Thanks again for the ideas.
 

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