How Do You Find a Unique Line in a File 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 a unique line in a file?

Find unique lines

  1. The file must be sorted first. sort file | uniq -u will output to console for you. – ma77c. …
  2. 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.
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