Re: uniq without sort <-------------- GURU NEEDED

gnuist006@gmail.com wrote:

> I want uniq without sorting the initial order.
>
> The algorithm is this. For every line, look above if there is another
> line like it. If so, then ignore it. If not, then output it. I am
> sure, I can spend some time to write this in C. But what is the
> solution using shell ?

Um, just pipe the output through uniq without first piping it through sort?

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