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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers awk or uniq Post 302960789 by bakunin on Thursday 19th of November 2015 03:24:45 PM
Old 11-19-2015
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Originally Posted by Indra2011
Is there a way I can use uniq command or awk to do this?
You cannot use the uniq command for this because uniq filters lines so that only unique ones (hence the name) remain. As all your lines are unique, because they all differ in some regards uniq will not give you what you want.

awk might be able to give you the result you want once you can tell us what exactly the rules for your intended filtering are. I might be slow but i do not get it from a few example lines and two lines of expected output. Depending on these rules you might also take sort into consideration as a probably helpful tool.

I hope this helps.

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uniq(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   uniq(1)

Name
       uniq - report repeated lines in a file

Syntax
       uniq [-udc[+n][-n]] [input[output]]

Description
       The  command  reads  the  input	file comparing adjacent lines.	In the normal case, the second and succeeding copies of repeated lines are
       removed; the remainder is written on the output file.  Note that repeated lines must be adjacent in order to be found.  For further  infor-
       mation, see

Options
       The n arguments specify skipping an initial portion of each line in the comparison:

       -n Skips specified number of fields.  A field is defined as a string of non-space, non-tab characters separated by tabs and spaces from its
	  neighbors.

       +n Skips specified number of characters in addition to fields.  Fields are skipped before characters.

       -c Displays number of repetitions, if any, for each line.

       -d Displays only lines that were repeated.

       -u Displays only unique (nonrepeated) lines.

       If the -u flag is used, just the lines that are not repeated in the original file are output.  The -d option specifies  that  one  copy	of
       just the repeated lines is to be written.  The normal mode output is the union of the -u and -d mode outputs.

       The  -c option supersedes -u and -d and generates an output report in default style but with each line preceded by a count of the number of
       times it occurred.

See Also
       comm(1), sort(1)

																	   uniq(1)
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