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Old 11-24-2011
finding duplicates in csv based on key columns
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.

i sorted the columns first based on the key and view the data but. it won't show properly.

thanks,
Baski
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Old 11-24-2011
Give some input content and expected output ..
# 3  
Old 11-24-2011
Try this:

Quote:

'inputFile.csv'
------------
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20
11,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,40,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20
1,2,3,4,5,66,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20


awk -F, '!dup[$1,$10,$4,$6,$8,$2]++' inputFile.csv
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