How Do I Remove Duplicate Rows in Unix?

How Do I Remove Duplicate Rows in Unix?
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How do I remove duplicate rows in Linux?

The uniq command is used to remove duplicate lines from a text file in Linux. By default, this command discards all but the first of adjacent repeated lines, so that no output lines are repeated. Optionally, it can instead only print duplicate lines.

How do you filter duplicates in Unix?

The uniq command in UNIX is a command line utility for reporting or filtering repeated lines in a file. It can remove duplicates, show a count of occurrences, show only repeated lines, ignore certain characters and compare on specific fields.

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