Full sort -u option command for a more specific/detail aim

BudiKusasi · 07-16-2022, 01:10 AM

How is the complete sort -u option command syntax in more specific purpose in order to remove all inexact duplicate lines that is instead of finding exact characters in line to remove, every line with existing space between words its length may vary so considered duplicate ?

MadeInGermany · 07-16-2022, 01:33 AM

Please show an example input (in code tags so spaces are retained)!

In sort you can limit to certain keyfields. But awk and bash-builtins might be more aporopriate here.

syg00 · 07-16-2022, 02:34 AM

I'm a simple soul - I would use sed to reduce all multiple white-space to single and pipe to sort.

KISS.