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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Remove duplicates from a file Post 302804649 by saga20 on Thursday 9th of May 2013 04:14:21 AM
Old 05-09-2013
Question Remove duplicates from a file

Can u tell me how to remove duplicate records from a file?
 

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pilot-dedupe(1) 						    PILOT-LINK							   pilot-dedupe(1)

NAME
pilot-dedupe - Removes duplicate records from any Palm database. SECTION
pilot-link: Userland conduits SYNOPSIS
pilot-dedupe [-p|--port <port>] [-q|--quiet] [--version] [-?|--help] [--usage] database ... DESCRIPTION
pilot-dedupe is used to remove duplicate records from any Palm database. OPTIONS
Conduit Options -p, --port lt;port> Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, pilot-dedupe will look for the $PILOTPORT envi- ronment variable. If neither are found or supplied, pilot-dedupe will print the usage information. -q, --quiet Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message -v, --version Display version of pilot-dedupe and exit without connecting. Help Options -h, --help Display the help synopsis for pilot-dedupe and exit without connecting. --usage Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting. EXAMPLE
To remove duplicates from the Address and Todo databases: pilot-dedupe -p /dev/pilot AddressDB ToDoDB AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk> REPORTING BUGS
We have an online bug tracker. Using this is the only way to ensure that your bugs are recorded and that we can track them until they are resolved or closed. Reporting bugs via email, while easy, is not very useful in terms of accountability. Please point your browser to http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and issues there. COPYRIGHT
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER- CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. SEE ALSO
pilot-link(7). 0.12.5 Copyright 1996-2007 FSF pilot-dedupe(1)
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