Hi all,
I have a file that contains a list of codes (shown below).
I want to 'uniq' the file using only the first field. Anyone know an easy way of doing it?
Cheers,
Dave
##### Input File #####
1xr1 1xws 1yxt 1yxu 1yxv 1yxx 2o3p 2o63 2o64 2o65
1xr1 1xws 1yxt 1yxv 1yxx 2o3p 2o63 2o64... (8 Replies)
Hi ;
I have a question regarding the uniq command in unix
How do I uniq 3rd field in a file ?
original file :
zoom coord 39 18652 39 18652
zoom coord 39 18653 39 18653
zoom coord 39 18818 39 18818
zoom coord 39 18840 39 18840
zoom coord 41 15096 41 15096
zoom... (1 Reply)
How can I use uniq on a certain field or what else could I use? If I want to use uniq on the second field and the output would remove one of the lines with a 5.
bob 5 hand
jane 3 leg
jon 4 head
chris 5 lungs (1 Reply)
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Hi New to unix.
I want to display only the unrepeated lines from a file using first field.
Ex:
1234 uname1 status1
1235 uname2 status2
1234 uname3 status3
1236 uname5 status5
I used
sort filename | uniq -u
output:
1234 uname1 status1
1235 uname2 status2
1234 uname3 status3
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I have a flatfile A.txt
2012/12/04 14:06:07 |trees|Boards 2, 3|denver|mekong|mekong12
2012/12/04 17:07:22 |trees|Boards 2, 3|denver|mekong|mekong12
2012/12/04 17:13:27 |trees|Boards 2, 3|denver|mekong|mekong12
2012/12/04 14:07:39 |rain|Boards 1|tampa|merced|merced11
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Hi All,
I have a file like this(having 2 column).
Column 1: like a,b,c....
Column 2: having numbers.
I want to segregate those numbers based on column 1.
Example:
file.
a 5
b 9
b 620
a 710
b 230
a 330
b 1910 (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Raza Ali
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
uniq
UNIQ(1) FSF UNIQ(1)NAME
uniq - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file
SYNOPSIS
uniq [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]
DESCRIPTION
Discard all but one of successive identical lines from INPUT (or standard input), writing to OUTPUT (or standard output).
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-c, --count
prefix lines by the number of occurrences
-d, --repeated
only print duplicate lines
-D, --all-repeated[=delimit-method] print all duplicate lines
delimit-method={none(default),prepend,separate} Delimiting is done with blank lines.
-f, --skip-fields=N
avoid comparing the first N fields
-i, --ignore-case
ignore differences in case when comparing
-s, --skip-chars=N
avoid comparing the first N characters
-u, --unique
only print unique lines
-w, --check-chars=N
compare no more than N characters in lines
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
A field is a run of whitespace, then non-whitespace characters. Fields are skipped before chars.
AUTHOR
Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
LAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for uniq is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and uniq programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info uniq
should give you access to the complete manual.
uniq (coreutils) 4.5.3 February 2003 UNIQ(1)