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# 1  
Old 08-02-2008
How to remove duplicate lines of a record without changing the order

Hi all,
I have to remove duplicate lines in a file without chainging the order.for eg if i have a record

pqr
def
abc
lmn
pqr
abc
mkh
hgf


the output should be
pqr
def
abc
lmn
mkh
hgf

Plz help me.It is urgent

Abhishek
# 2  
Old 08-02-2008
Is this a homework?
Try searching the forums.
# 3  
Old 08-02-2008
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

while (<STDIN>)
{
        push (@lines, $_);
}

print "-\n";

foreach my $i (@lines)
{
        if (scalar (grep { /$i/ } @lines) == 1)
        {
                print $i;
        }
}

Usage:
Code:
Tsunami repeated_lines # perl repeat.pl 
pqr
def
abc
lmn
pqr
abc
mkh
hgf
-
def
lmn
mkh
hgf
Tsunami repeated_lines #

To stop input, just hit Ctrl-D and the script will give you all the non-repeated strings in the input order.

You can also do something like:

Code:
Tsunami repeated_lines # cat lines |perl repeat.pl 
-
def
lmn
mkh
hgf
Tsunami repeated_lines # cat lines 
pqr
def
abc
lmn
pqr
abc
mkh
hgf
Tsunami repeated_lines #

# 4  
Old 08-02-2008
Using awk ...
Code:
$ awk '! a[$0]++' file
pqr
def
abc
lmn
mkh
hgf
$

# 5  
Old 08-02-2008
As I said,
you just need to search the forums to find the following solutions:


Code:
awk '!_[$0]++' input

Code:
perl -ne'print unless $_{$_}++' input

or:

Code:
perl -ne'$_{$_}++||print' input

# 6  
Old 08-03-2008
If the requirement is to keep the last instead of the first occurrence, it's only marginally harder.

Code:
perl -ne '$n{$_} = $.; END { print sort { $n{$a} <=> $n{$b} } keys %n }'

If the last line lacks a newline, that will count as a unique line. It's not terribly hard to fix, but I didn't want to complicate the script.
# 7  
Old 08-03-2008
Quote:
If the requirement is to keep the last instead of the first occurrence
[...]
With GNU Awk:

Code:
awk 'END { for (k in r) t[sprintf("%10d", r[k])] = k
  n = asorti(t, _)
  while (++i <= n) print t[_[i]] }
{ r[$0] = NR }' filename

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