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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Duplicate lines in a file Post 302419022 by Scott on Thursday 6th of May 2010 04:15:15 AM
Old 05-06-2010
Hi.

None of your lines are actually duplicated (they're all unique). You mean the first field?

Code:
$ awk -F, '!A[$1]++' inputfile
00:44,37,67,56,15,12
00:59,37,67,56,15,12
01:14,35,68,53,15,12

 

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