Removing duplicate characters from a string on Linux with awk



June 14, 2022 at 04:11AM

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script.

First, the awk command that we’ll be using starts by running through each letter in the string. In a more common command, you might see awk doing something like this:

$ echo one:two:three | awk ‘BEGIN {FS =":"} ; { print $2 }’
two

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The FS portion of that command specifies the field separator—the character that is used to separate the fields in the string so that they can be processed separately.

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