[NTLUG:Discuss] sed awk question

[Rev. wRy]

Bobby Wrenn wrote:

> So, here is my question this week. I need to sort a comma delimited file and 
> return only those line where the first field is unique. Currently I am 
> pulling the file into Access and elimating duplicates there. There has to be 
> a better way.

cat file | sort | uniq > newfile

won't do it for you?

> TIA
> Bobby

Ry
(*finally* got an answer on the script I asked about months ago - go figure, 1 
line in awk did it.)