Posts Tagged ‘data’

Removing duplicate lines with awk

Posted: August 11, 2011 in Geek Stuff
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Often I’ve found the need to manipulate text files in various ways and I’ve found the powerful awk/gawk program invaluable saving me many hours of repetitive work. The latest one-liner I used though left me stumped as to how it actually works. Very simply I had an unsorted list of several hundred email addresses and I needed [...]