[thelist] removing redundant entries

[Hassan Schroeder]

D. Bruce Saurer wrote:
> I have a comma deliminated dump from a database
> that had corrupted.  1600 unique rows became 25,600.
> How can I remove the redundant lines keeping the original?

If you're on a *nix system or Windows-with-Cygwin,

prompt% cat large.csv | sort | uniq > small.csv

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