I have the following file
1928282,Stephen LTD,31280938,L34
3128398,Stephen LTD,84327489,L34
I want to uniq on fields 2 & 4, the fields are comma seperated
I cant figure out how to do this....any ideas? im pretty sure uniq does not support this
sjgriffiths
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Jump to PostUse nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.
awk -F, '!x[$2,$4]++' input
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radoulov
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Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.
awk -F, '!x[$2,$4]++' input
eggi
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You can also use the -u flag to sort, which can pick out fields:
sort -t, -u -k2,2 -k4,4
Best wishes,
Mike
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