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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
Some versions of uniq (notably the GNU one) allow
a "skip fields" or a "skip characters" feature.
Given the broken nature of this gentleman's syslogd --
I hesitated to suggest that -- and offered a script
which should work even with the oldest awk's.
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