How to get lines with only one occurence of pattern?


 
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Old 12-27-2016
Thanks everybody, I found the awk-based solution checking on NF==2 as the most appropriate. This is because I oversimplified the sample I posted, actual data has records with three and more sets and I don't have perl available in this environment.
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hbpldecode(1)						      General Commands Manual						     hbpldecode(1)

NAME
hbpldecode - Decode a HBPL stream into human readable form. SYNOPSIS
hbpldecode [options] <hbpl-file DESCRIPTION
hbpldecode decodes a HBPL stream into human readable form. A HBPL stream is the printer langauge used by the Fuji-Xerox cp105b and the Dell 1250c printers. COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
These are the options that can appear on the command line. -d basename Basename of .pbm file for saving decompressed planes. -h Print hex file offsets. -o Print file offsets. -D level Set Debug level [0]. EXAMPLES
Decode an HBPL stream file. $ hbpldecode -h 1250c-mono.prn 0: 33%-12345X@PJL JOB MODE=PRINTER 1f: @PJL SET STRINGCODESET=UTF8 3b: @PJL COMMENT DATE=06/01/2011 58: @PJL COMMENT TIME=13:28:30 73: @PJL COMMENT DNAME=empty - Notepad 96: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@LUNA=rick" b4: @PJL SET COPIES=1 c6: @PJL SET QTY=1 d5: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@TRCH=OFF" f2: @PJL SET DUPLEX=OFF 106: @PJL SET BINDING=LONGEDGE 120: @PJL SET RENDERMODE=GRAYSCALE 13e: @PJL SET ECONOMODE=OFF 155: @PJL SET RET=ON 165: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@IREC=OFF" 182: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@HOAD=I0A00020F" 1a5: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@JOAU=rick" 1c3: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@CNAM=RICK-VB" 1e4: @PJL SET IWAMANUALDUP=OFF 1fe: @PJL SET IWAJAMRECOVERY=AUTO 21b: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@MSIP=NORMAL" 23b: @PJL SET PAPERDIRECTION=SEF 257: @PJL SET RESOLUTION=600 26f: @PJL SET BITSPERPIXEL=8 287: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@DRDM=RASTER" 2a7: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@TCPR=33" 2c3: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@TUCR=33" 2df: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@TTRC=33" 2fb: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@TSCR=33" 317: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@GCPR=33" 333: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@GUCR=33" 34f: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@GTRC=33" 36b: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@GSCR=33" 387: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@ICPR=34" 3a3: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@IUCR=34" 3bf: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@ITRC=34" 3db: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@ISCR=34" 3f7: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@TDFT=0" 412: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@GDFT=0" 42d: @PJL SET JOBATTR="@IDFT=0" 448: @PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=HBPL 461: RECTYPE 'A' [0x41]: 462: 81 a1: 0x0 465: 82 a2: 0x7 469: 83 a2: 0x1 46d: RECTYPE 'C' [0x43]: 46e: 91 a1: 0x0 471: 92 a1: 0x1 474: 93 a1: 0x1 477: 94 a1: 0x0 47a: 95 c2: 0x0 480: 96 a1: 0x0 483: 97 c3: 0x0 489: 98 a1: 0x0 48c: 99 a4: 1 [PAGECNT] 492: 9a c4: 5104x6600 [WxH] 49c: 9b a1: 0x0 49f: 9c a1: 0x1 4a2: 9d a1: 0x9 4a5: 9e a1: 0x2 4a8: 9f a1: 0x5 4ab: a0 a1: 0x8 4ae: a1 a1: 0x0 4b1: a2 c4: 5104x6600 [WxH] 4bb: RECTYPE 'Q' [0x51]: 4bc: RECTYPE 'R' [0x52]: 4bd: a3 a1: 0x0 4c0: a4 a2: 6457 (0x1939) bytes of data... 1dfe: RECTYPE 'S' [0x53]: 1dff: RECTYPE 'D' [0x44]: 1e00: RECTYPE 'B' [0x42]: 1dff: 33%-12345X@PJL EOJ FILES
/usr/bin/hbpldecode AUTHOR
Rick Richardson <rick.richardson@comcast.net>