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Removing duplicate lines with awk ‘!visited[$0]++’ explained

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Lazarus Lazaridis
Jun 7, 2019

How to remove duplicate lines of a file in Linux without sorting or changing their order (awk one-liner explained).

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Lazarus Lazaridis

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