Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: removing duplicate lines from a text file???
Keywords: duplicate lines, sort(1)
Message-ID: <3081@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 26 Mar 90 18:48:36 GMT
References: <1990Mar25.182039.25565@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <2309@network.ucsd.edu>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>>    Is there any simple way to remove duplicate lines from a text file?

	...

>The easiest way is
>    sort -u orig_file > new_file

Assuming, of course, that the order of the lines in the file isn't
important.