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[wishlist] uniq can remove non adjacent lines

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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Stéphane Blondon <stephane.blondon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10287 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10287: [wishlist] uniq can remove non adjacent lines
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:20:18 -0700

Stéphane Blondon wrote:
> I think `uniq` should have an additional option (for example -a,
> --all) to remove same lines but not adjacent.
> 
> The man page explains a workaround based on `sort` but it can be
> complex to use. Few weeks ago, I had to `uniq`-ize random numbers and
> the sort couldn't really work. Fortunately, the order was not
> important so using `sort | uniq | sort --random-sort` was an
> acceptable solution. I imagine cases based on other tools like `top`
> could be a problem too.

If you want to print only the first of a unique line then this perl
one-liner will do it.

  perl -lne 'print $_ if ! defined $a{$_}; $a{$_}=$_;'

Bob

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