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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove lines with unique information in indicated columns Post 302890922 by SriniShoo on Sunday 2nd of March 2014 01:13:15 PM
Old 03-02-2014
Can you please explain more...because, from the data you shown above, how do you get the result you provided for identical cols 1 & 2.
Anyways, if you want unique col 1 & 2
Code:
awk '! a[$1 $2]++' <inputfile>

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