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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing duplicates on a single "column" (delimited file) Post 302965483 by Don Cragun on Friday 29th of January 2016 03:23:37 PM
Old 01-29-2016
I prefer the awk solutions suggested by Jim McNamara and MadeInGermany for your stated problem, but you could also consider this alternative for cases where you want the output sorted on the field you're using to select records:
Code:
sort -t';' -u -k8,8 oldfile > newfile

which, with your sample input in oldfile, produces the output:
Code:
M202034357;01/2008;J30DF061;Ciclo 06 de Faturamento;4000034956;06F010800020;269800607228;173691920;000030011-AA;9.9;GUARA
M202034357;01/2008;J30PA091;Ciclo 01 de Faturamento;4000043785;01F010800027;270200624370;175114167;000011219-AB;9.9;BELÉM
M202034357;01/2008;J30RJ021;Ciclo 01 de Faturamento;4000029579;01F010800017;270500588743;175121705;000188224-AA;9.9;NITEROI
M202034357;01/2008;J30SP011;Ciclo 01 de Faturamento;4000029579;01F010800017;270500589299;175123639;000241055-AB;9.9;SAO PAULO
M202034357;01/2008;J30AP096;Ciclo 01 de Faturamento;4000029579;01F010800017;270500589332;175123672;000001842-AB;9.9;MACAPA
M202034357;01/2008;J30SP011;Ciclo 01 de Faturamento;4000029579;01F010800017;270500589787;175125437;000256241-AB;9.9;SAO PAULO
M202034357;01/2008;J30SP011;Ciclo 01 de Faturamento;4000029579;01F010800017;270500590036;175126399;000458131-AA;9.9;SAO CAETANO DO SUL
M202034357;01/2008;J30RJ021;Ciclo 01 de Faturamento;4000029579;01F010800017;270500591331;175130959;000074873-AB;9.9;RIO DE JANEIRO
M202034357;01/2008;J30SP011;Ciclo 01 de Faturamento;4000029579;01F010800017;270500591956;175132948;000441734-AA;9.9;SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO
M202034357;01/2008;J30SP011;Ciclo 01 de Faturamento;4000029579;01F010800017;270500591958;175132950;000441735-AA;9.9;SAO PAULO
M202034357;01/2008;J30RJ021;Ciclo 01 de Faturamento;4000043657;01F010800002;118000613348;175138146;000161122-AA;9.9;RIO DE JANEIRO
M202034357;01/2008;J30PA091;Ciclo 01 de Faturamento;4000043657;01F010800002;118000614087;175140485;000023707-AA;9.9;BELEM
M202034357;01/2008;J30AM097;Ciclo 01 de Faturamento;4000043657;01F010800002;118000614870;175142866;000026153-AA;4.99;MANAUS

in newfile.
 

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COLUMN(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 COLUMN(1)

NAME
column -- columnate lists SYNOPSIS
column [-tx] [-c columns] [-s sep] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
The column utility formats its input into multiple columns. Rows are filled before columns. Input is taken from file operands, or, by default, from the standard input. Empty lines are ignored. The options are as follows: -c Output is formatted for a display columns wide. -s Specify a set of characters to be used to delimit columns for the -t option. -t Determine the number of columns the input contains and create a table. Columns are delimited with whitespace, by default, or with the characters supplied using the -s option. Useful for pretty-printing displays. -x Fill columns before filling rows. ENVIRONMENT
The COLUMNS, LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of column as described in environ(7). EXIT STATUS
The column utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. EXAMPLES
(printf "PERM LINKS OWNER GROUP SIZE MONTH DAY " ; printf "HH:MM/YEAR NAME " ; ls -l | sed 1d) | column -t SEE ALSO
colrm(1), ls(1), paste(1), sort(1) HISTORY
The column command appeared in 4.3BSD-Reno. BUGS
Input lines are limited to LINE_MAX (2048) bytes in length. BSD
July 29, 2004 BSD
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