On Jul 6, 4:02 am, Stefan Klein <st.fankl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi vim users, > > i got a longer SQL script with duplicate inserts :/ > I'd like to remove those without sorting the whole file. > It's possible to match the lines by a pattern. > > One solution might be to insert the line number at the end of the line, > sort the file, > delete duplicate lines ignoring the linenumber, > move the line number to the start of the line, > sort, > remove the line number. > > Is there a more simple way? >
As a refinement of your original method, I expected this to work: 1. Insert line number at BEGINNING of the line 2. ":sort /^\d\+ / u" to sort, removing duplicate lines, ignoring the line number at the beginning of the line 3. ":sort n" to sort on line number 4. remove line number But, it seems the 'u' flag does not ignore the /pattern/ as the sort itself does. I expected u and /pattern/ to work together since u and i work together just fine. Does anyone know if this is intentional? Anyway, even if you cannot automatically remove duplicate lines with the u flag, it saves the step of moving the line number around. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
