Take a look at 'sort | uniq' On Jul 13, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> The text file has > 120k rows; each row has 8 columns. There are > duplicate rows that I want to eliminate. My reading of the sort man page and > various Web pages with examples tells me that the sort --key option is > limited to a sequential starting field and ending field. What I need is to > sort on fields 1, 2, and 4. > > If 'sort' won't do this, what tool will? I don't see how awk, sed, or grep > can, yet a combination of these perhaps might. Russell Johnson [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
