Duplicate Line Remover

const text = `apple
banana
apple
Cherry
banana
cherry`

// Remove exact duplicates, preserve order
const unique = [...new Map(
  text.split('\n').map(line => [line, line])
).values()].join('\n')
// → "apple\nbanana\nCherry\ncherry"

// Case-insensitive deduplication
const seen = new Set()
const ciUnique = text.split('\n').filter(line => {
  const key = line.toLowerCase()
  if (seen.has(key)) return false
  seen.add(key)
  return true
}).join('\n')
// → "apple\nbanana\nCherry"

// Trim whitespace before comparing
const trimDedup = text.split('\n').filter(line => {
  const key = line.trim().toLowerCase()
  if (seen.has(key)) return false
  seen.add(key)
  return true
}).join('\n')

text = """apple
banana
apple
Cherry
banana
cherry"""

lines = text.splitlines()

# Remove duplicates, preserve order (Python 3.7+)
unique = list(dict.fromkeys(lines))
# → ['apple', 'banana', 'Cherry', 'cherry']

# Case-insensitive deduplication
seen = set()
ci_unique = []
for line in lines:
    key = line.lower()
    if key not in seen:
        seen.add(key)
        ci_unique.append(line)
# → ['apple', 'banana', 'Cherry']

# With whitespace trimming
seen = set()
trimmed = []
for line in lines:
    key = line.strip().lower()
    if key not in seen:
        seen.add(key)
        trimmed.append(line)

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
)

func removeDuplicates(text string) string {
	lines := strings.Split(text, "\n")
	seen := make(map[string]bool)
	result := make([]string, 0, len(lines))

	for _, line := range lines {
		if !seen[line] {
			seen[line] = true
			result = append(result, line)
		}
	}
	return strings.Join(result, "\n")
}

func main() {
	text := "apple\nbanana\napple\ncherry\nbanana"
	fmt.Println(removeDuplicates(text))
	// → apple\nbanana\ncherry
}

# Remove duplicates (sorts output — does not preserve order)
sort -u file.txt

# Remove duplicates while preserving original order
awk '!seen[$0]++' file.txt

# Case-insensitive dedup, preserve order
awk 'BEGIN{IGNORECASE=1} !seen[tolower($0)]++' file.txt

# Trim whitespace then dedup
sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//;s/[[:space:]]*$//' file.txt | awk '!seen[$0]++'

# Count duplicates before removing
sort file.txt | uniq -c | sort -rn