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Re: remove paths


From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: remove paths
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:57:20 -0400
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
> Padraig@linux.ie (Padraig Brady) writes:
>|> ?
>|> newpath=`echo $PATH | tr : '\n' | uniq | tr '\n' :`
> 
> uniq only works on sorted input (it only compares successive lines).

sort -u (or sort|uniq) could be used instead.  But this will still
fail if any of the entries happens to contain a newline, and it
requires that you have these external commands installed.  Not that
these are major obstacles.


paul



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