Sort and deduplicate

bash

sort -u names.txt

Explanation

Equivalent in effect to `sort | uniq` for many workflows.

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Count occurrences of adjacent duplicate lines.

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Default lexicographic sort.

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Invert the output order.

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Order lines by numeric value.

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Sort values like 1K, 5M, 2G.

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Sort on the second whitespace-separated column.

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