From: ToRA Date: 2005-10-12T00:56:57+09:00 Subject: Re: One-liner removing duplicate lines ruby -e 'require "set" ; s = Set.new ; ARGF.each_line {|z| s.add?(z) and puts(z) }' input > output or even more verbose ruby -e 'require "set" ; s = Set.new ; ARGF.each_line {|z| if s.add?(z) then puts(z) end }' input > output Tris