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Old 02-11-2011
Delete duplicate in certain number of string

Hi,
do you have awk or sed sommand taht will delete duplicate lines like.

sample:
Code:
server1-log1-14
server1-log2-14
superserver-time-2
superserver-log-2

output:
Code:
server-log1-14
superserver-time-2



thansk

Last edited by Franklin52; 02-11-2011 at 03:24 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
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Old 02-11-2011
Code:
awk -F \- '!a[$1]++' infile

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Old 02-11-2011
thanks dude..awesome..
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