Duplicate Line Finder

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Have you ever duplicated a cron entry, or just wanted to find duplicate lines in a file.

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Here is a simple one liner, which shows all lines which occur more than once in a file or standard output.

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[example]


sort cronfile.223 | uniq -c | awk ' $1 != 1 '

So to check that cron directly – just do this:


crontab -l | uniq -c | awk ' $1 != 1 '

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[tags]UNIX, awk, script, uniq, Unix Coding School[/tags]

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