[NTLUG:Discuss] Short script question

Hank Ivy hankivy at hot.rr.com
Tue May 4 17:41:17 CDT 2010


On Tuesday 04 May 2010 08:15 am Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> Can someone point me in the right direction? Perhaps an on line tutorial 
> that might cover something like this. I've looked at sed and awk

I recommend PERL.  Use pattern matching to sort out any irrelevant characters, 
and a hash array to keep patterns found, and a count.  Write out whatever part 
of the hash you want.

If you just want something simple, use "sort | uniq -d" to find only the 
duplicated lines.

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Hank Ivy

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