Saturday, July 4, 2009

Remove duplicate lines from vi editor


In order to remove all duplicate lines (rows) from a file which is opened in vi editor,

Use the following command

:sort u

which will sort all lines and remove duplicates and will keep only unique lines.
Other solutions for removing duplicate lines from vi editor can be found here

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