Removing duplicates from delimited file based on 2 columns
Hi guys,Got a bit of a bind I'm in. I'm looking to remove duplicates from a pipe delimited file, but do so based on 2 columns. Sounds easy enough, but here's the kicker...
Column #1 is a simple ID, which is used to identify the duplicate.
Once dups are identified, I need to only keep the one with the latest date, which is column #4, in mm/dd/yyyy format. Of course, rows that don't have dup's would remain as-is.
Example input.txt:
In that scenario, the output would be rows 1, 3, and 4, since rows 2 and 5 are duplicates based on the ID and are older than the one in row 4 based on date.
The other kicker is...
The file I'm doing this with is 400,000 rows. So, I need the method to be extremely efficient and as quick as possible. I can't afford for this to take hours.
This is running on a Windows machine with GnuWin utils, as one last note.
I am definitely not enough of an expert to make this work, especially efficiently, so I'm hoping someone can help. Many thanks in advance.
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HI I am having a file like this
1234
12345678
1234567890123
4321
43215678
432156789028433435
I want to get ouput as
1234567890123
432156789028433435
based on key position 1-4
I am using ksh can anyone give me an idea
Thanks
pukars (1 Reply)
I am trying to figure out how to scan a file like so:
1 ralphs office","555-555-5555","ralph@mail.com","www.ralph.com
2 margies office","555-555-5555","ralph@mail.com","www.ralph.com
3 kims office","555-555-5555","kims@mail.com","www.ralph.com
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Hi All,
I needs to fetch unique records based on a keycolumn(ie., first column1) and also I needs to get the records which are having max value on column2 in sorted manner... and duplicates have to store in another output file.
Input :
Input.txt
1234,0,x
1234,1,y
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Hi,
I am unable to search the duplicates in a file based on the 1st,2nd,4th,5th columns in a file and also remove the duplicates in the same file.
Source filename: Filename.csv
"1","ccc","information","5000","temp","concept","new"
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Hi,
I have the input file with the below data:
12345|12|34
12345|13|23
3456|12|90
15670|12|13
12345|10|14
3456|12|13
I need to remove the duplicates based on the first field only.
I need the output like:
12345|12|34
3456|12|90
15670|12|13
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Hi team,
I have 20 columns csv files. i want to find the duplicates in that file based on the column1 column10 column4 column6 coulnn8 coulunm2 . if those columns have same values . then it should be a duplicate record.
can one help me on finding the duplicates,
Thanks in advance.
... (2 Replies)
Hi All ,
I have a requirement where I need to remove duplicates from a fixed width file which has multiple key columns .Also , need to capture the duplicate records into another file .
File has 8 columns.
Key columns are col1 and col2.
Col1 has the length of 8 col 2 has the length of 3.
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123|asdf|sfsd|qwrer
431|yui|qwer|opws
123|asdf|pol|njio
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Hello !
I'm quite new to linux but haven't found a script to do this task, unfortunately my knowledge is quite limited on shellscripts...
Could you guys help me removing the duplicate lines of a file, based only on a single "column"?
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010020001_S-FOR-Sort-SYEXC_20160229_2212102.marker
010020001-S-XOR-Sort-SYEXC_20160229_2212104.marker
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
colrm
COLRM(1) BSD General Commands Manual COLRM(1)NAME
colrm -- remove columns from a file
SYNOPSIS
colrm [start [stop]]
DESCRIPTION
The colrm utility removes selected columns from the lines of a file. A column is defined as a single character in a line. Input is read
from the standard input. Output is written to the standard output.
If only the start column is specified, columns numbered less than the start column will be written. If both start and stop columns are spec-
ified, columns numbered less than the start column or greater than the stop column will be written. Column numbering starts with one, not
zero.
Tab characters increment the column count to the next multiple of eight. Backspace characters decrement the column count by one.
ENVIRONMENT
The LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of colrm as described in environ(7).
EXIT STATUS
The colrm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO awk(1), column(1), cut(1), paste(1)HISTORY
The colrm command appeared in 3.0BSD.
BSD August 4, 2004 BSD