Re: Scripting help

[kmself]

on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:50:27PM -0600, Scott E . Graves ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> If I had a list containing redundant entries, what command could I use 
> suppress the duplications. Here's an example list:
> 
> man
> man
> ls
> df
> find
> find
> find
> 
> This would be obtaining using `sa -u | grep scottg | awk '{print $8}' ` to 
> list all programs executed by user scottg. I need to condense the list to:
> 
> man
> ls
> df
> find

uniq, as suggested, but it only removes *consecutive* unique entries.

I'd suggest:

   $ sort -u < list > uniqlist

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