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Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars(_at_)bu(_dot_)edu> wrote:
:Syslog on some machines is broken, and instead of adding a note to the
:effect of "previous message repeated 271 times", it will include all 271
:seperate log messages.
:
:I don't need to see all of these.
:
:What's the most efficient way of filtering lines that are repeated more
:than <n> times?
If you're willing to settle for n=1, try the "uniq" command (but don't
sort first, as most situations would require). For more information
and the correct options to use, type at the Unix shell prompt
man uniq
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