Yeah, why not? If I had to do this here, or if the list were very long (over
1000 entries, say), I'd write a perl program to read the file into a sorted
array, discarding duplicates along the way, then write out a new, clean file.
If the list was short and I was feeling lazy (or didn't know perl), I'd use
"sort" to process the file and output a new copy, then use vi (or whatever
text editor you prefer) to delete the dups by hand.
The relevant sort line ("man sort" for details) is something like:
sort -o outfile.name infile.name
At 05:46 AM 2/17/99 +0500, Omer Ansari wrote [excerpt]:
>this is the scenario: i have a file in which there are multiple entries
>of the same email address...e.g.:
>excerpt from the file shows that there are two entries of
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to remove all the rest
>as i want only a single entry for each email address (1
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] and 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] in this case).
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