VI question?????

[Huggy]

Here is the deal.
I have a long file with names oh about 979 names each on their own line.
The problem is there are some names in there two or three times which I do not need. How do I point these names out and delete them, so they are only in there once. Using VI command line type of deal. :confused:

[slacker_x]

I have no idea how to do what you described in vi. If I had to do something like that, I would just write something up in Perl. It would do this:
- read line 1
- write line 1 to modified_file
- replace every instance of that line with nothing
- read line 2
- replace every instance of that line with nothing
.....

one you are done reading the original file, you should have one copy of every name in the new file.

[Huggy]

ok and I know nothing about Perl.
:rolleyes:

could someone give me a little head or show me the path?

[Strike]

I could whip up some sort of shell script if I had a few sample lines.