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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting formatting a file and removing duplicates Post 302561955 by Scrutinizer on Wednesday 5th of October 2011 03:17:00 PM
Old 10-05-2011
Hi, try this:
Code:
awk '!A[$1]++' ORS=', ' infile | sed 's/, $/\n/'

-same solution Smilie -
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