From: Urban Hafner Date: 2002-03-12T07:01:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Using 'uniq' question On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 22:55, Johan Holmberg wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Ed Baker wrote: > > > > If I have an array of data, where each record looks like the example > > below the cut line, how could I do a "uniq" sort based only on the > > first column. > > > > ===========================cut line ======================== > > 100788 1000 1538 > > 100791 1000 1505 > > 100791 1000 1520 > > 100792 1000 1698 > > 100792 1000 5215 > > 100802 1000 1088 > > 100808 1000 1094 > > 100827 1000 1516 > > 100829 1000 1115 > > 100830 1000 1115 > > 100891 1000 1398 > > 100895 1000 1115 > > > > Does it have to involve Ruby ? > Or would the following command be OK ? > > $ sort -u +0 -1 YOUR-FILE > > /Johan Holmberg > >