[SunHELP] grep unique values

[Subhasis Gupta]

Try the command:
ls -al | awk '$9=="user"||$9=="usr"||$9=="temp" 
{print $9}'
Let me know if it works in your case,
Subhasis 
--- "Markham, Richard" <RMarkham at hafeleamericas.com>
wrote:
> I need help to grep a large file containing
> directory 
> paths which are highly repeated values to list just
> one occurence of each unique value.
> ie. file contains:
>   /luser
>   /usr
>   /usr
>   /luser
>   /temp
>   /temp
> grep only to return /user, /usr, /temp.
> 
> purpose is to make sure the directories are created
> on a 
> remote machine prior to data transfer.
> 
> thanks
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