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Eliminate duplicate lines on a file
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cat file1.txt | uniq > file2.txt

olafrv · 2009-03-01 05:10:10 11
remove exact phrase from multiple files

Linux : these script enable you to edit multiple files and remove exact phrase from multiple files
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grep -r "mystring" . |uniq | cut -d: -f1 | xargs sed -i "s/mystring//"

mohamednasr2000 · 2009-04-09 12:49:01 9
shell function to find duplicate lines in a series of files or in stdin
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dups() { sort "$@" | uniq -d; }

bartonski · 2011-10-04 16:46:00 6
count occurences of each word in novel David Copperfield

This command might not be useful for most of us, I just wanted to share it to show power of command line. Download simple text version of novel David Copperfield from Poject Gutenberg and then generate a single column of words after which occurences of each word is counted by sort | uniq -c combination. This command removes numbers and single characters from count. I'm sure you can write a shorter version. Show Sample Output
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```
aback	1
abandon	6
abandoned	13
abase	1
abased	1
abashed	7
abated	1
abatement	1
...
```
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wget -q -O- http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/cprfd10.txt | sed '1,419d' | tr "\n" " " | tr " " "\n" | perl -lpe 's/\W//g;$_=lc($_)' | grep "^[a-z]" | awk 'length > 1' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{print $2"\t"$1}'

alperyilmaz · 2009-05-04 16:00:39 11
netstat with group by (ip adress)

netstat has two lines of headers: Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State Added a filter in the awk command to remove them
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netstat -ntu | awk ' $5 ~ /^[0-9]/ {print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

letterj · 2011-07-04 20:23:21 8
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burn initial session on a growable DVD using growisofs

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Monitor progress of a command

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