How Do You Find a Unique Line in a File Linux?
Contents 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...
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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.
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- The file must be sorted first. sort file | uniq -u will output to console for you. – ma77c. …
- I think the reason sort file | uniq shows all the values 1 time is because it immediately prints the line it encounters the first time, and for the subsequent encounters, it just skips them. – Reeshabh Ranjan.