09-17-2002
the answer
I made it
here is what worked for me:
perl -e 'print reverse <>' logfile|uniq -w 50|perl -e 'print reverse <>' >logfile.done
so first, the logfile is inverted (by lines) then the dupes are removed and finaly we do an invert again.
The inversion is needed in order to have the first of a duplicate line pair removed.
Thanks to your contributions folks. This pointed me into the right direction.
Klaus
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DESCRIPTION
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