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The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

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The Linux terminal may seem rather daunting when you’re accustomed to Windows' menu-based interface, but its utility is nothing to scoff at. Rather than forcing you to navigate through a barrage of ...

The first command we’ll examine in this post is a very unusual awk command that systematically removes every line in the file that is encountered more than once. It leaves the first instance of the ...

Shell scripts tend to fork a lot of processes to do things (although, IIRC, busybox is a mostly sh-compatible replacement that makes a whole lot of common unix commands be high performance built-ins ...