Looking at the above awk snippet, it’ll retain order, though. So, sort will normally change the order. The awk snippet won’t, just skip occurrences of a given line after the first. Depending upon the use case, that order retention could be pretty desireable.
Looking at the above awk snippet, it’ll retain order, though. So, sort will normally change the order. The awk snippet won’t, just skip occurrences of a given line after the first. Depending upon the use case, that order retention could be pretty desireable.