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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using dirname on a file before uniq Post 302707259 by brsett on Friday 28th of September 2012 09:26:52 AM
Old 09-28-2012
Using dirname on a file before uniq
Hello,

I have a list of files generated like this:

Code:
find dir -type f > file_list

I want to get a list of just the unique directories. I can't create a temporary file. So the idea is to do a working equivalent to this:

Code:
cat file_list | dirname | uniq

But of course that doesn't even come close to working. For now, I'm looping thru the file, creating a \n seperated list of names ina variable, and running that thru uniq. Seems like there should be a clever one liner. Ideas?
 

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PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

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