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May 29th, 2004, 01:30 AM

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search for duplicates in a log file

i'm creating a shell script in unix that will read the contents of a log file and will detect any duplicates in that log file, the duplicates will be dump to another file. How will i search for any duplicates in every line of the log file? How will i compare the content of the log file line by line, need ur help badly, thnx in advance.

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