Sort, Dedupe and Clean Lines
Sort lines alphabetically or naturally, remove duplicates, keep only duplicated lines, trim, drop empty lines or number them.
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Input
Sort, dedupe and clean up lines
Output
Result
7 lines in, 7 out
Sorting uses Intl.Collator, so accented letters sort next to their base letter, unlike a plain byte sort such as LC_ALL=C sort.
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About this tool
Method, assumptions, practical next steps, and limits.
The shell equivalents
Every operation here has a one-line shell form: sort, sort -r, sort -V for natural order, sort -u or awk '!seen[$0]++' to remove duplicates while keeping order, sort | uniq -d for duplicated lines, and nl or cat -n to number them.
Locale changes the order
GNU sort follows the current locale, so the same file sorts differently under LC_ALL=C, which compares bytes, and under en_US.UTF-8, which compares letters the way a dictionary does. This tool sorts the dictionary way with Intl.Collator. When two scripts disagree about the order of a sorted file, a different locale is the usual cause.
