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

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.01.2008 um 03:45 schrieb gnuist006@xxxxxxxxx:

> 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 ?

Put the output to make unique into an array. Mark a duplicate with  
something invalid. Filter the array that all invalid entries are  
eliminated.

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