Re: uniq without sort <-------------- GURU NEEDED

[Michele Dondi <bik.mido@tiscalinet.it>]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:45:24 -0800 (PST), gnuist006@gmail.com wrote:

>I want uniq without sorting the initial order.
>
>The algorithm is this. For every line, look above if there is another
>line like it. If so, then ignore it. If not, then output it. I am
>sure, I can spend some time to write this in C. But what is the
>solution using shell ? This way I can get an output that preserves the
>order of first occurrence. It is needed in many problems.

In shell I don't know. In Perl it's well known to be as trivial as

  perl -ne 'print unless $saw{$_}++' file

(And it's not even the most golfed down solution!)


Michele
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