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Old 09-10-2001, 12:21 AM   #1
cowardnewbie
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Question How 2 find a duplicate word in a text file


If I have this variable-length text file containing a record such as:

newone:batam elf: *:newone:
marlin:shark:marlinmuni:

My quest is What Linux command can I use to find duplicate words in a stream of records, and display those lines on the screen?
I cannot find such command anywhere except those that show how to find files.

Thank you anyone for your help !!!
 
Old 09-16-2001, 11:57 PM   #2
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I dont think that native linux will do that, but you can write a perl script in about 3 minutes to do exactly that.
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