Re: Deleting Duplicate Lines one-liner

[Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan]

On Jul 30, Paul said:

>> while (<INPUTFILE>){
>>    if (not $seen{$_}) {
>>        $seen{$_} = 1;
>>         print OUTFILE;
>>     }
>>     else {
>>     }
>>   }

Here's a one-liner:

  perl -nle 'print if !$seen{$_}++'

and here's another:

  perl -pe '$_ x= !$seen{$_}++'  (attributed to some of Larry's genius)

and another, for use in a program

  $seen{$_} ||= print OUT while <IN>;

Have fun. :)

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