How Do I Count Unique Lines in Linux?
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How do I find unique lines in Linux?

To find unique occurrences where the lines are not adjacent a file needs to be sorted before passing to uniq . uniq will operate as expected on the following file that is named authors. txt . As duplicates are adjacent uniq will return unique occurrences and send the result to standard output.

How do I find unique records 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: …
  4. Another perl way: …
  5. A shell script to fetch / find duplicate records:
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