Sort and uniq lines of a file while keeping a header line
So, I have a file that has some duplicate lines. The file has a header line that I would like to keep at the top.
I could do this by extracting the header from the file, 'sort -u' the remaining lines, and recombine them. But they are quite big, so if there is a way to do it with a single command, that would be great.
Do somebody have idea How to sort standard input without first line which in my case it's header
Example:
Cnt|VT |STAT|Date |Time |From |Alert Message |Instance |
125| | | 260308 |160026 |ZAMUAT2|ifpollq... (8 Replies)
Hello all,
I've got a strange behaviour of sort and uniq commands: they do not recognise apparently duplicated lines in a file (already sorted). The lines are identical by eye, but they must differ in smth, because when they are put in two files, those have slightly different size.
What can make... (8 Replies)
Hello all, new to unix and have just found the forum.
I think I will be here quite often, and hope that in time i will be able to provide soem help, role on not being a newbie anymore :)
I have a question which iI am hoping someone could help me with.
If i have a file with lines in in thus... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file with a header line, followed by some contents. How can I sort the file according to header lines?
eg.
/* abcd_005*/
a
bc
/* abcd_001*/
d
e
/* abcd_002*/
x
y
desired output:
/*abcd_001*/ (0 Replies)
I have a file with list of redundant server names and want only unique ones of those.
I have used following command but still redudant ones are listing
$cat file|sort|uniq
where could be the problem.
Thanks,
Srinivas (3 Replies)
How to sort a tab delimited file first on col1 and then on col2. Also I need to keep the header intact.
file.txt
val1 val2 val3 val4
a b c d
m n o p
e f g h
i j k l
... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying write a simple command using AWK and SED to this but without any success.
Here is what I am using:
head -1 test1.txt>test2.txt|sed '1d;$d' test1.txt|awk '{print substr($0,0,(length($0)-2))}' >>test2.txt|tail -1 test1.txt>>test2.txt
Input:
Header
1234567
abcdefgh... (2 Replies)
I have an output file .dat. From this file i have to do a distinct of the ID using the sort uniq command in bash script. How can i do it? i found :
sort -u ${FILEOUT_DAT}
but i don't think is my solution because the id isn't specified.. is there other solution? (7 Replies)
I have a file is created from standard output.
I have put a leading space to force the first line to collate low vis a vis the rest of the lines.
If I pass the entire file to the Linux sort, it ignores the leading space and the first line appears in somewhere in the list.
If I add lots of... (15 Replies)
I've been struggling with this one for quite a while and cannot seem to find a solution for this find/replace scenario. Perhaps I'm getting rusty.
I have a file that contains a number of metrics (exactly 3 fields per line) from a few appliances that are collected in parallel. To identify the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: verdepollo
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN
uniq
UNIQ(1) BSD General Commands Manual UNIQ(1)NAME
uniq -- report or filter out repeated lines in a file
SYNOPSIS
uniq [-c | -d | -u] [-i] [-f num] [-s chars] [input_file [output_file]]
DESCRIPTION
The uniq utility reads the specified input_file comparing adjacent lines, and writes a copy of each unique input line to the output_file. If
input_file is a single dash ('-') or absent, the standard input is read. If output_file is absent, standard output is used for output. The
second and succeeding copies of identical adjacent input lines are not written. Repeated lines in the input will not be detected if they are
not adjacent, so it may be necessary to sort the files first.
The following options are available:
-c Precede each output line with the count of the number of times the line occurred in the input, followed by a single space.
-d Only output lines that are repeated in the input.
-f num Ignore the first num fields in each input line when doing comparisons. A field is a string of non-blank characters separated from
adjacent fields by blanks. Field numbers are one based, i.e. the first field is field one.
-s chars
Ignore the first chars characters in each input line when doing comparisons. If specified in conjunction with the -f option, the
first chars characters after the first num fields will be ignored. Character numbers are one based, i.e. the first character is
character one.
-u Only output lines that are not repeated in the input.
-i Case insensitive comparison of lines.
DIAGNOSTICS
The uniq utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
COMPATIBILITY
The historic +number and -number options have been deprecated but are still supported in this implementation.
SEE ALSO sort(1)STANDARDS
The uniq utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A uniq command appeared in Version 3 AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 6, 1993 BSD