That doesn't exactly solve the stated problem, does it? As I read it, the OP only wants those lines that only appear one time in the input. What you've given is a way to display a given line from the input at most one time.

Here's a solution (untested, so there's probably boundary problems) that only needs to keep at most 3 lines in memory under the constraint that the lines are already sorted. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict; use warnings;

my ($p1, $p2);
while(<DATA>) {
    next unless $p1 and $p2;
    if ($p2 eq $p1) {$p2 = $p1 = undef; redo; }
    if ($p2 ne $p1) { print $p2; next; }

} continue { $p2 = $p1; $p1 = $_; }

__DATA__
a1a
a1a
b1b
c1c
c1c
d1d
d1d
e1e
f1f
g1g
g1g
h1h
h1h
i1i
j1j
k1k
k1k
k1k

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duff

In reply to Re^2: Read file line by line and check equal lines by duff
in thread Read file line by line and check equal lines by Anonymous Monk

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