Hi all, the output of my nawk/sed script is leaving me with many repeated entries, ie: entry1 entry1 entry2 entry2 ... There are not similarities on the entries, how can I eliminate all repeated entries, and leave only one occurence for each different entry? your help is greatly appreciated.

Hi: Your output appears to be sorted. If that's the case why not send the output of your script to sort -u. (-u means unique). You also might check out the uniq command. Regards, Nails

Nails has you on the right track, but I get the impression that some of the records are mostly similar but perhaps are not precise duplicates. Perhaps the same except for a datestamp which you wish to ignore in terms of uniqueness. If this is the case your explanation of the problem should have been more detailed. Thus do I point you to: man sort You will there discover that you probably want to do something like: cat datafile | sort -u -k 1,1 > output which will send the data through the sort command, which will "key" in on only the first field, as delimited by white-space. Remember you must check the man pages for yourself, I am not familiar with Solaris, which may or may not have a different sort command.