Re^3: Find duplicate lines from the file and write it into new file.

but then you would lose the duplicates, i think the OP wanted to find the duplicates, perhaps somthing along the lines of sort | uniq -c , then they could read the file and look at the counts

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Re^4: Find duplicate lines from the file and write it into new file. by davidrw (Prior) on Jan 04, 2007 at 13:51 UTC
`uniq` can give you the dups directly: `sort foo.txt \| uniq -d` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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