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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting print line before column 1 transitions Post 302186653 by radoulov on Thursday 17th of April 2008 05:33:00 PM
Old 04-17-2008
Code:
awk 'END{print _}!y[$1]++&&NR>1{print _}{_=$0}!x[$1]++' file

Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.
 

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