Re:[OT?]Deleting Duplicate Lines one-liner

[Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan]

On Jul 30, Paul said:

>--- Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> perl -pe '$_ x= !$seen{$_}++'  (attributed to some of Larry's genius)
>
>LOL!!! Twistedly brilliant!
>
>Ok, lemme see if I can parse this.....
[correct prognosis snipped]
>Is that right?

Yes.  I attribute that to Larry Wall, because he wrote something like

  perl -pe '$_ x= /pattern/'

to make a poor man's grep.  I found that beautiful.

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