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Old 09-17-2002
Deleting double entry in a file
Hi,

I am having almost the same problem as junior member 'oupsforum' (refer to subjuct "deleting double entry in a log file"), only that I am using Sun Sorlaris Unix which the uniq command does not has the flag -w. So I am not able to ignore certain portion of the line when the uniq doing the comparison.

Is any one here farmiliar with Sun Unix, so that he/she can a give me a little help.

Thanks a lot,
Vincent
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Old 09-17-2002
why dont you try what Pererabo said. most likely it is for ksh.

Quote:
Originally posted by Perderabo
How about:
uniq <inputfile >outputfile
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Old 09-17-2002
Data
Uniq is not working for me case because the double entry is not excact duplicate of each other, only the ending parts are duplicated.

Any other suggestion ......

Thanks
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Old 09-18-2002
Re: Deleting double entry in a file
Quote:
Originally posted by Wing m. Cheng
I am using Sun Sorlaris Unix which the uniq command does not has the flag -w. So I am not able to ignore certain portion of the line when the uniq doing the comparison.
From the SunOS uniq man page:
Quote:
-s chars
Ignore the first chars characters when doing comparisons
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