Hi Frank, I just created a quick test file and sort -u didn't quite work for me (technically it should do what you are asking) but then I realised that I had invisible spaces after some of the words and so they were not deemed uniquely different by the system. Perhaps you are having the same issue. However, I found that the following seems to work - I think it pushes the "spacebar" space into a new line creating unique words minus the space formatting:
cat words.txt | tr " " "\n" | sort -u Regards, Tahir On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Frank Murphy wrote: > > > I have 554 words in the following file one word per line. > > Some words are repeated up to 3 times. > > > > words.list > > > > If I try "cat words.list | uniq -u" > > It dumps all repeated words, I need one copy of all words. > > > > uniq words.list > uniq.list > > Words are still duplicated. > > > > sort words.list | uniq > > leaves about 20 words total > > which I feel is wrong as > > cat words.list | uniq -c > > shows about 100 non-dupe words > > > > Haven't much success with sort either. > > sort -u? > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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