Frequent Question: How Count Duplicate Lines in Unix?
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The uniq command in UNIX is a command line utility for reporting or filtering repeated lines in a file. It can remove duplicates, show a count of occurrences, show only repeated lines, ignore certain characters and compare on specific fields.

How do I find duplicate rows in Unix?

How to find duplicate records of a file in Linux?

  1. Using sort and uniq: $ sort file | uniq -d Linux. …
  2. awk way of fetching duplicate lines: $ awk ‘{a[$0]++}END{for (i in a)if (a[i]>1)print i;}’ file Linux. …
  3. Using perl way: $ perl -ne ‘$h{$_}++;END{foreach (keys%h){print $_ if $h{$_} > 1;}}’ file Linux. …
  4. Another perl way: …
  5. A shell script to fetch / find duplicate records:

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How do you count lines in Unix?

How to Count lines in a file in UNIX/Linux

  1. The “wc -l” command when run on this file, outputs the line count along with the filename. $ wc -l file01.txt 5 file01.txt.
  2. To omit the filename from the result, use: $ wc -l < file01.txt 5.
  3. You can always provide the command output to the wc command using pipe. For example:
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