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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- Remove duplicate consecutive fields or lines from file
- Remove duplicate blank lines using awk in bash
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- Remove duplicate lines without sorting file using awk
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