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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Honey, I broke awk! (duplicate line removal in 30M line 3.7GB csv file) Post 302894688 by Chubler_XL on Wednesday 26th of March 2014 06:07:33 PM
Old 03-26-2014
Do you really need to compare the whole line for uniqueness?

You should get a big reduction in memory usage by only checking the first 100 chars with:

Code:
awk '!(substr($0,1,100) in a) { a[substr($0,1,100)]; print }'

 

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