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Sep 5, 2021 at 11:53 comment added Ed Morton @Ramesh there's no indication in the question that using -t' ' would be useful or even the right thing to do, it'd break if the input was tab-separated for example.
Sep 5, 2021 at 11:52 comment added Ed Morton @Bharat GNU sort has a -s option to handle that.
Sep 5, 2021 at 11:51 comment added Ed Morton @PhilCoulson - -k3 would sort using the string starting with the 3rd key rather than sort ONLY using the 3rd key. Try printf 'a b\na c\n' | sort -k1,1 -u vs printf 'a b\na c\n' | sort -k1 -u.
Apr 4, 2020 at 13:07 comment added Rajat @Ramesh-Why do we need -k3,3 instead of just -k3?
Apr 26, 2018 at 7:28 comment added Bharat @Ramesh it does the job but sorting changes the sequence of lines that I guess not expected always.
Feb 15, 2018 at 4:40 comment added Randoms Was about to comment snarkily that -u would only remove duplicate lines, not duplicate keys... but I'm wrong.
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