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# 1  
Old 04-19-2014
Remove duplicates
I have a file with the following format:

fields seperated by "|"

title1|something class|long...content1|keys
title2|somhing class|log...content1|kes
title1|sothing class|lon...content1|kes
title3|shing cls|log...content1|ks

I want to remove all duplicates with the same "title field"(the 1st column) regardless anything following in that line.

thanks a lot.
# 2  
Old 04-20-2014
man sort
man uniq
# 3  
Old 04-20-2014
Code:
awk 'F "|" '! a[$1]++' file

# 4  
Old 04-20-2014
Thanks a lot. It works perfect.

Code:
awk -F "|" '! a[$1]++' file

Quote:
Originally Posted by SriniShoo
Code:
awk 'F "|" '! a[$1]++' file

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