>>>>> "Rick" == Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rick> On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 04:06:33PM -0300, O Senhor wrote:
>> How can i delete equal lines from a file, without sort it? If i use
>> sort -u, the command clean up the repeat lines, but sort my file
>> (ascendent). I don't want this. I need my file in original form.
Try this perl script:
---- BEGIN ----
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my %lines;
while (<>)
{
if (!defined $lines{$_})
{
print;
$lines{$_} = "";
}
}
----- END -----
(lightly tested, performance may or may not suck.)
[...]
Rick> Have you looked at 'uniq'?
uniq still needs the lines to be sorted:
# man uniq
[...]
NAME
uniq - remove duplicate lines from a *sorted* file
[...]
(emphasis mine)
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