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sort & uniq

Learn to sort text and remove duplicates with sort and uniq commands.

Step 1

Sort the names.txt file alphabetically.

Type: sort documents/names.txt

sort documents/names.txt

Step 2

Sort names.txt in reverse order using the -r flag.

Step 3

Try numeric sort with -n flag. Even with text, see how it behaves differently.

Step 4

Use uniq to remove consecutive duplicate lines. Note: uniq only removes adjacent duplicates!

Step 5

Combine sort and uniq with a pipe to get truly unique names.

Step 6

Use uniq -c to count how many times each name appears.