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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oh that's very interesting. I usually do sort --unique or sort [...] | uniq if I need specific sorting logic (like by size on disk, etc).

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Looking at the above awk snippet, it'll retain order, though. So, sort will normally change the order. The awk snippet won't, just skip occurrences of a given line after the first. Depending upon the use case, that order retention could be pretty desireable.

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