[NBLUG/talk] script assist

[Bill Kendrick]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:22:12PM -0800, coop wrote:
> Need a hand here...
> 
> I have a file which contains, $1 ( TCPIP address ) $2 user
> 
> file |wc -l  = 559
> 
> 
> however I know I am using only 482 addresses...
> 
> So what I can see is that a machine was logged into by several people..
> 
> so I want to have "fileout" with no repeating IP's.....

... | sort | uniq  (or just "sort -u")  might help.

... | sort | uniq -c   will show you how many times different things repeat.

Good luck!

-bill!
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