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Old 04-01-2001
Hi, can anyone help me with this small problem.
Say i've got duplicate words in a list e.g
blue
orange
green
green
pink
blue
red

How can I delete all reoccurences of the same word?

Thanks
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Old 04-01-2001
sort filename | uniq - filename
sort filename | uniq > filename

 
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