Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> Thanks, read the man page, it was short so it didn't take long. I tried
> this:
>
> uniq -u /home/dale/Desktop/hosts /home/dale/Desktop/hostsort
>
> It doesn't look like it did anything but copy the same thing over.
> There are only 2 lines missing. Does spaces count? Some put in a lot
> of spaces between the localhost and the web address. Maybe that has a
> affect??
The problem with uniq is that it (according to the manpage),
"Discard all but one of successive identical lines"
You need to have a sorted file for uniq to do what you want, or sort
it with the -u option
sort -u hosts > hostsort
If you don't want to ruin your original order you have to do something
else. This is one way of doing it with perl.
perl -ne 'print unless exists $h{$_}; $h{$_} = 1' hosts > hostsort
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