How can I find the unique lines and remove all duplicates from a file?
My input file is
1
1
2
3
5
5
7
7
I would like the result to be:
2
3
sort file | uniq will not do the job. Will show all values 1 time
uniq has the option you need:
-u, --unique
only print unique lines
$ cat file.txt
1
1
2
3
5
5
7
7
$ uniq -u file.txt
2
3
Use as follows:
sort < filea | uniq > fileb
You could also print out the unique value in "file" using the cat command by piping to sort and uniq
cat file | sort | uniq -u
While sort takes O(n log(n)) time, I prefer using
awk '!seen[$0]++'
awk '!seen[$0]++' is an abbreviation for awk '!seen[$0]++ {print}', print line(=$0) if seen[$0] is not zero.
It take more space but only O(n) time.
I find this easier.
sort -u input_filename > output_filename
-u stands for unique.
you can use:
sort data.txt| uniq -u
this sort data and filter by unique values
uniq -u has been driving me crazy because it did not work.
So instead of that, if you have python (most Linux distros and servers already have it):
Assuming you have the data file in notUnique.txt
#Python
#Assuming file has data on different lines
#Otherwise fix split() accordingly.
uniqueData = []
fileData = open('notUnique.txt').read().split('\n')
for i in fileData:
if i.strip()!='':
uniqueData.append(i)
print uniqueData
###Another option (less keystrokes):
set(open('notUnique.txt').read().split('\n'))
Note that due to empty lines, the final set may contain '' or only-space strings. You can remove that later. Or just get away with copying from the terminal ;)
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Just FYI, From the uniq Man page:
"Note: 'uniq' does not detect repeated lines unless they are adjacent. You may want to sort the input first, or use 'sort -u' without 'uniq'. Also, comparisons honor the rules specified by 'LC_COLLATE'."
One of the correct ways, to invoke with:
#
sort nonUnique.txt | uniq
Example run:
$ cat x
3
1
2
2
2
3
1
3
$ uniq x
3
1
2
3
1
3
$ uniq -u x
3
1
3
1
3
$ sort x | uniq
1
2
3
Spaces might be printed, so be prepared!
uniq -u < file will do the job.
uniq should do fine if you're file is/can be sorted, if you can't sort the file for some reason you can use awk:
awk '{a[$0]++}END{for(i in a)if(a[i]<2)print i}'
sort -d "file name" | uniq -u
this worked for me for a similar one. Use this if it is not arranged.
You can remove sort if it is arranged
This was the first i tried
skilla:~# uniq -u all.sorted
76679787
76679787
76794979
76794979
76869286
76869286
......
After doing a cat -e all.sorted
skilla:~# cat -e all.sorted
$
76679787$
76679787 $
76701427$
76701427$
76794979$
76794979 $
76869286$
76869286 $
Every second line has a trailing space :(
After removing all trailing spaces it worked!
thank you
Instead of sorting and then using uniq, you could also just use sort -u. From sort --help:
-u, --unique with -c, check for strict ordering;
without -c, output only the first of an equal run
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I am currently working on a script that should receive a standard input, and output the user with the highest amount of files in that directory.
I've wrote this so far:
#!/bin/bash
while read DIRNAME
do
ls -l $DIRNAME | awk 'NR>1 {print $4}' | uniq -c
done
and this is the output I get when I enter /etc for an instance:
26 root
1 dip
8 root
1 lp
35 root
2 shadow
81 root
1 dip
27 root
2 shadow
42 root
Now obviously the root folder is winning in this case, but I don't want only to output this, i also want to sum the number of files and output only the user with the highest amount of files.
Expected output for entering /etc:
root
is there a simple way to filter the output I get now, so that the user with the highest sum will be stored somehow?
ls -l /etc | awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS=" "}{a[$4]+=1}END{ for (i in a) print a[i],i}' | sort -g -r | head -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f2
This snippet returns the group with the highest number of files in the /etc directory.
What it does:
ls -l /etc lists all the files in /etc in long form.
awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS=" "}{a[$4]+=1}END{ for (i in a) print a[i],i}' sums the number of occurrences of unique words in the 4th column and prints the number followed by the word.
sort -g -r sorts the output descending based on numbers.
head -n 1 takes the first line
cut -d' ' -f2 takes the second column while the delimiter is a white space.
Note: In your question, you are saying that you want the user with the highest number of files, but in your code you are referring to the 4th column which is the group. My code follows your code and groups on the 4th column. If you wish to group by user and not group, change {a[$4]+=1} to {a[$3]+=1}.
Without unreliable parsing the output of ls:
read -r dirname
# List user owner of files in dirname
stat -c '%U' "$dirname/" |
# Sort the list of users by name
sort |
# Count occurrences of user
uniq -c |
# Sort by higher number of occurrences numerically
# (first column numerically reverse order)
sort -k1nr |
# Get first line only
head -n1 |
# Keep only starting at character 9 to get user name and discard counts
cut -c9-
I have an awk script to read standard input (or command line files) and sum up the unique names.
summer:
awk '
{ sum[ $2 ] += $1 }
END {
for ( v in sum ) {
print v, sum[v]
}
}
' "$#"
Let's say we are using your example of /etc:
ls -l /etc | summer
yields:
0
dip 2
shadow 4
root 219
lp 1
I like to keep utilities general so I can reuse them for other purposes. Now you can just use sort and head to get the maximum result output by summer:
ls -l /etc | summer | sort -r -k2,2 -n | head -1 | cut -f1 -d' '
Yields:
root
I'm trying to write a very small program that will check the number of sub strings in a large text file. All it will do is count the first 2000 lines of the text file, find any "TTT" sub-strings, count them, and set a variable to that total. I'm a bit new to shell, so any help would be amazingly appreciated!
#!/bin/bash
$counter=(head -2000 [file name] | grep TTT | grep -o TTT | wc -l)
echo $counter
For what it's worth you might awk better suited for this task:
awk -F"ttt" '{j=(NF-1)+j}END{print j}' filename
This will split each record in your file by delimiter "ttt". Then it counts the number of fields, subtracts one, and adds that to the total.
A file like:
ttt tttttt something
1 5 ttt
tt
one more ttt record
Would be split (visualizing with pipe delim) like:
| || something
1 5 |
tt
one more | record
Counting the number of fields per record:
4
2
1
2
Subtracting one from that:
3
1
0
1
Which totals to 5, which is how many "ttt" substrings are present.
To incorporate this into your script (and fixing your other issue):
#!/bin/bash
counter=$(awk -F"ttt" '{j=(NF-1)+j}END{print j}' filename)
echo $counter
The change here is that when we set a variable in Bash we don't include the $ sign at the front. Only in referencing the variable do we include the $.
You have some minor syntax errors there, probably you meant this:
counter=$(head -2000 [file name] | grep TTT | grep -o TTT | wc -l)
echo $counter
Notice the tiny changes I made there to make it work.
Btw the grep TTT in the middle is redundant, you can simply drop it, that is:
counter=$(head -2000 [file name] | grep -o TTT | wc -l)
grep can already do what you want: counter=$(grep -c TTT $infile). You can limit the number of hits (not lines) with -m NUM, --max-count=NUM, which makes grep stop at the end of the file OR when NUM occurrences are found.
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Find duplicate lines in a file and count how many time each line was duplicated?
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I have file file.txt which look like this
a
b
b
c
c
c
I want to know the command to which get file.txt as input and produces the output
a 1
b 2
c 3
I think uniq is the command you are looking for. The output of uniq -c is a little different from your format, but this can be fixed easily.
$ uniq -c file.txt
1 a
2 b
3 c
If you want to count the occurrences you can use uniq with -c.
If the file is not sorted you have to use sort first
$ sort file.txt | uniq -c
1 a
2 b
3 c
If you really need the line first followed by the count, swap the columns with awk
$ sort file.txt | uniq -c | awk '{ print $2 " " $1}'
a 1
b 2
c 3
You can use this awk:
awk '!seen[$0]++{ print $0, (++c) }' file
a 1
b 2
c 3
seen is an array that holds only uniq items by incrementing to 1 first time an index is populated. In the action we are printing the record and an incrementing counter.
Update: Based on comment below if intent is to get a repeat count in 2nd column then use this awk command:
awk 'seen[$0]++{} END{ for (i in seen) print i, seen[i] }' file
a 1
b 2
c 3
I have one issue with getting number different strings.
I have two files, for example :
file1 :
aaa1
aaa4
bbb3
ccc2
and
file2:
bbb3
ccc2
aaa4
How from this get value 1 (in this case aaa1 string reason)?
I have one query but it calculates not only different strings, them also takes into account the order of the rows.
diff file1 file2 | grep "<" | wc -l
Thanks.
You can use grep -v -c with other options as this:
grep -cvwFf file2 file1
1
Options used are:
-c - get the count of matches
-v - invert matches
-w - full word match (to avoid partial matches)
-F - fixed string match
-f - Use a file for matching patterns
As far as I understand your requirements, sorting the files prior to the diff is a quick solution:
sort file1 > file1.sorted
sort file2 > file2.sorted
diff file1.sorted file2.sorted | egrep "[<>]" | wc -l
I want to calculate the frequency of the words from a file, where the words are one by line. The file is really big, so this might be the problem (it counts 300k lines in this example).
I do this command:
cat .temp_occ | uniq -c | sort -k1,1nr -k2 > distribution.txt
and the problem is that it gives me a little bug: it considers the same words as different.
For example, the first entries are:
306 continua
278 apertura
211 eventi
189 murah
182 giochi
167 giochi
with giochi repeated twice as you can see.
At the bottom of the file it becomes even worse and it looks like this:
1 win
1 win
1 win
1 win
1 win
1 win
1 win
1 win
1 win
1 winchester
1 wind
1 wind
for all the words.
What am I doing wrong?
Try to sort first:
cat .temp_occ | sort| uniq -c | sort -k1,1nr -k2 > distribution.txt
Or use "sort -u" which also eliminates duplicates. See here.
The size of the file has nothing to do with what you're seeing. From the man page of uniq(1):
Note: 'uniq' does not detect repeated lines unless they are adjacent.
You may want to sort the input first, or use 'sort -u' without
'uniq'. Also, comparisons honor the rules specified by 'LC_COLLATE'.`
So running uniq on
a
b
a
will return:
a
b
a
Is it possible that some of the words have whitespace characters after them? If so you should remove them using something like this:
cat .temp_occ | tr -d ' ' | uniq -c | sort -k1,1nr -k2 > distribution.txt