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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers identifying duplicates line & reporting their line number Post 302071668 by stresslog on Sunday 23rd of April 2006 01:57:48 PM
Old 04-23-2006
Clarification

Hi I should clarify - I'm a post doc who is trying to teach myself unix in order to get my work done
So there is no class, this is not homework and I have no it help person to ask
I use awk but aside from spliting the file into a series of one line files and then comparing (which seems very low tech) I don't know how to do this
I don't want to delete or count the lines (using uniq) I need to find out which lines match
I'm happy to use perl or any other scripting language
I am seriously looking for suggestions - otherwise I would not have posted this !
 

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uniq(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   uniq(1)

Name
       uniq - report repeated lines in a file

Syntax
       uniq [-udc[+n][-n]] [input[output]]

Description
       The  command  reads  the  input	file comparing adjacent lines.	In the normal case, the second and succeeding copies of repeated lines are
       removed; the remainder is written on the output file.  Note that repeated lines must be adjacent in order to be found.  For further  infor-
       mation, see

Options
       The n arguments specify skipping an initial portion of each line in the comparison:

       -n Skips specified number of fields.  A field is defined as a string of non-space, non-tab characters separated by tabs and spaces from its
	  neighbors.

       +n Skips specified number of characters in addition to fields.  Fields are skipped before characters.

       -c Displays number of repetitions, if any, for each line.

       -d Displays only lines that were repeated.

       -u Displays only unique (nonrepeated) lines.

       If the -u flag is used, just the lines that are not repeated in the original file are output.  The -d option specifies  that  one  copy	of
       just the repeated lines is to be written.  The normal mode output is the union of the -u and -d mode outputs.

       The  -c option supersedes -u and -d and generates an output report in default style but with each line preceded by a count of the number of
       times it occurred.

See Also
       comm(1), sort(1)

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