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Re: Re: Re: Detecting duplicate entries

by turnstep (Parson)
on Mar 01, 2001 at 22:13 UTC ( #61604=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Detecting duplicate entries
in thread Detecting duplicate entries

And to do it all at once as an inline edit: 
sort -uo file.txt file.txt

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Update: For those that asked, sort -u file.txt > file.txt
will completely and happily change file.txt into a zero byte file, hence the need for the "o" flag.

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