Re: uniq without sort <-------------- GURU NEEDED

Michael Tosch <eedmit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michele Dondi wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:45:24 -0800 (PST), gnuist006@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I want uniq without sorting the initial order.

In shell I don't know. In Perl it's well known to be as trivial as

perl -ne 'print unless $saw{$_}++' file
[...]
This is "print first unique".
For "print last unique" you really need perl:

perl -ne '$s{$_}=++$i; END {print sort {$s{$a}<=>$s{$b}} keys %s}'

Or just read slurp the whole file into an array, reverse(), and then use
Michele's suggestion.

jue
.

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