• lime!@feddit.nu
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    11 hours ago

    my favorite awk snippet is !x[$0]++ which is like uniq but doesn’t care about order. basically, it’s equivalent to print_this_line = line_cache[$current_line] == 0; line_cache[$current_line] += 1; if $print_this_line then print $current_line end.

    really useful for those long spammy logs.