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Old 09-01-2011
Error checking duplicate entry in file
Hi i have a file like
Code:
110.10
120.10
-1120
110.10

and the lines are having more than 10k.

do we have anycommand to check the duplicate entries in the file.

I applied the while loop by greping each line with whole file,
but it is taking huge amount of time as the file size is large.

do we have any efficient way?

thanks in advance
Last edited by radoulov; 09-01-2011 at 07:10 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags.
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Old 09-01-2011
What do you mean by "check duplicate entries"? Count them?
# 3  
Old 09-01-2011
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Originally Posted by bartus11
What do you mean by "check duplicate entries"? Count them?
i mean duplicate rows.

---------- Post updated at 05:00 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:59 AM ----------

i means duplicate rows.
# 4  
Old 09-01-2011
Code:
man uniq

But you have to sort the file before.
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Old 09-01-2011
Code:
sort inputfile | uniq -c | sort -g -k1

# 6  
Old 09-01-2011
You can use excel to find uniq output. Or any keyword cleaner tools
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