Deleting all occurences of a duplicate row


 
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Old 07-10-2008
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Originally Posted by ghostdog74
Code:
uniq -u -f 3 file

And the input should be sorted ... so ITYM:

Code:
sort input|uniq -uf3

The benchmarking would be interesting Smilie

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