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Explore Stack Internal The right way of removing duplicates suggested by @ghm1014 and @rush (in the comment) using sort:
PATH=`echo -e ${PATH//:/'\n'} | awk '{printf("%d|%s\n", NR, $0)}' | sort -t '|' -k 2 -u | sort -t '|' -k 1 -g | cut -f2 -d'|'`; export PATH=${PATH//[[:space:]][$'\n']/:} The right way of removing duplicates suggested by @ghm1014 and @rush (in the comment) using sort:
PATH=`echo -e ${PATH//:/'\n'} | awk '{printf("%d|%s\n", NR, $0)}' | sort -t '|' -k 2 -u | sort -t '|' -k 1 -g | cut -f2 -d'|'`; export PATH=${PATH//[[:space:]]/:} The right way of removing duplicates suggested by @ghm1014 and @rush (in the comment) using sort:
PATH=`echo -e ${PATH//:/'\n'} | awk '{printf("%d|%s\n", NR, $0)}' | sort -t '|' -k 2 -u | sort -t '|' -k 1 -g | cut -f2 -d'|'`; export PATH=${PATH//[$'\n']/:} The right way of removing duplicates suggested by @ghm1014 and @rush (in the comment) using sort:
NEW_PATH=`echoPATH=`echo -e ${PATH//:/'\n'} | awk '{printf("%d|%s\n", NR, $0)}' | sort -t '|' -k 2 -u | sort -t '|' -k 1 -g | cut -f2 -d'|'`d'|'`; export PATH=${PATH//[[:space:]]/:} The right way of removing duplicates suggested by @ghm1014 and @rush (in the comment) using sort:
NEW_PATH=`echo -e ${PATH//:/'\n'} | awk '{printf("%d|%s\n", NR, $0)}' | sort -t '|' -k 2 -u | sort -t '|' -k 1 -g | cut -f2 -d'|'` The right way of removing duplicates suggested by @ghm1014 and @rush (in the comment) using sort:
PATH=`echo -e ${PATH//:/'\n'} | awk '{printf("%d|%s\n", NR, $0)}' | sort -t '|' -k 2 -u | sort -t '|' -k 1 -g | cut -f2 -d'|'`; export PATH=${PATH//[[:space:]]/:}