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Date: 2013dec1
Language: bash
OS: Linux

Q.  How can I remove duplicate lines from a file?

A.  Use the -u option of sort:

sort -u file1 > file2

This will read file1 sort it and remove duplicate lines, placing
the result in file2.

The -u option stands for "unique".

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