in reply to Creating a non-redundant set
If some lines' partners do not appear in the file, then I doubt there's a simple way other than naively going through and keeping track of which lines you've seen. The above solution also may not be appropriate if you have some requirements about the order in which the lines appear (e.g, only the first occurrence should be preserved, not necessarily the one with xxx > yyy).
blokhead
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