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Why not just use the program uniq? It would appear to perform the same function as you desire, and is perhaps more recognizable when reading.

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Re: At each change in...
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 13, 2002 at 12:39 UTC
    uniq works as well; my point was more about using the toolkit available then sort vs uniq.

    Abigail

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