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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Uniq using only the first field Post 302158648 by radoulov on Wednesday 16th of January 2008 02:54:41 AM
Old 01-16-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by ilan
[...]
note: the catch here is that assumes your first feild would be always 4 :-)
... and that the file is sorted.
Note that both awk solutions will work even if the file is not sorted
(as far as the requirement is the uniqueness of the first field).

P.S. Connot check right now if the w option is for the GNU version only.
 

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UNIDUP(1)						      General Commands Manual							 UNIDUP(1)

NAME

       unidup - Scan through a sorted .hex file and report duplicate code points.

SYNOPSIS

       unidup < input_font.hex

DESCRIPTION

       unidup  reads  a  sorted GNU Unifont .hex file (sorted with the Unix sort utility) from stdin and prints notification of any duplicate code
       points on stdout.

FILES

       *.hex GNU Unifont font files

SEE ALSO

       bdfimplode(1), hex2bdf(1), hex2bdf-split(1), hex2sfd(1), hexbraille(1), hexdraw(1), hexmerge(1),  johab2ucs2(1),  unibmp2hex(1),  unicover-
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AUTHOR

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LICENSE

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BUGS

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