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Re: Matching repeating lines?

1997-02-10 17:08:04
On Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:03:12 -0500 lars(_at_)software3(_dot_)bu(_dot_)edu (Lars
Kellogg-Stedman) wrote:

sed -n -e '$!N' -e '/[^ ]*  *[^ ]*  *[^ *]  *[^ ]*  *\(.*\)\n.*\1/!P'

The '-n' (suppress default output) makes the '-e D' on the end
unnecessary (the output is identical, and I'm assuming that the two
expressions are syntactically the same).  That ugly regexp skips the

Whoops, I lied.

That's:

sed -e '$!N' -e '/[^ ]*  *[^ ]*  *[^ *]  *[^ ]*  *\(.*\)\n.*\1/!P' -e D

And the world's a happier place.

-- Lars

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