Show HN: Command Line Challenge

Re:Show HN: Command Line Challenge by adimitrov on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:14PM (#13495297)

The awk line for duplicate lines without changing ordering is… wow. Awk is such an underused tool (at least for me.) My solution was:

    awk '{printf "%2d %s\n", NR, $0}' < faces.txt | sort -k 2 -u | sort -n | sed 's/^...//'

Ironically, it also involved awk! But I used it to prepend line numbers, which uniq and sort can ignore, then re-sort it according to line numbers. Very much not an ideal solution!

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Re:Show HN: Command Line Challenge by ianmcgowan on Thursday January 26, 2017 @05:22PM (#13495821)

Mine was more procedural - store each line in a hash as you visit it, and only print lines you haven't already visited. awk is awesome ;-)

awk '!h[$0] {h[$0]=1; print}' faces.txt

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Re:Show HN: Command Line Challenge by schoen on Thursday January 26, 2017 @05:58PM (#13496159)

I also used this approach but the original creator's version posted on GitHub is remarkably more concise (due to a clever use of the ++ operator).

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Re:Show HN: Command Line Challenge by ianmcgowan on Thursday January 26, 2017 @08:16PM (#13496946)

awk '!h[$0]++' faces.txt

That is clever! Awk golf hole-in-one ;-)

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Re:Show HN: Command Line Challenge by jenrzzz on Thursday January 26, 2017 @08:48PM (#13497095)

I love awk. I used to be afraid of it, but I started using it just to pluck columns, and over a couple years actually started to grok it.

Also, I learned today that cat takes a -n option to prepend line numbers to the output! My solution ended up being

    cat -n faces.txt | sort -k2 -k1n | uniq -f1 | sort -nk1,1 | cut -f2-

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