How do I find duplicates in a column?
$ head countries_lat_long_int_code3.csv | cat -n
1 country,latitude,longitude,name,code
2 AD,42.546245,1.601554,Andorra,376
3 AE,23.424076,53.847818,United Arab Emirates,971
4 AF,33.93911,67.709953,Afghanistan,93
5 AG,17.060816,-61.796428,Antigua and Barbuda,1
6 AI,18.220554,-63.068615,Anguilla,1
7 AL,41.153332,20.168331,Albania,355
8 AM,40.069099,45.038189,Armenia,374
9 AN,12.226079,-69.060087,Netherlands Antilles,599
10 AO,-11.202692,17.873887,Angola,244
For instance this has duplicates in the 5th column.
5 AG,17.060816,-61.796428,Antigua and Barbuda,1
6 AI,18.220554,-63.068615,Anguilla,1
How do I view all the others in this file?
I know I can do this:
awk -F, 'NR>1{print $5}' countries_lat_long_int_code3.csv | sort
And I can eyeball and see if there is any duplicates, but is there a better way?
Or I can do this: Find out how may are there completely
$ awk -F, 'NR>1{print $5}' countries_lat_long_int_code3.csv | sort | wc -l
210
Find out how many unique values are there
$ awk -F, 'NR>1{print $5}' countries_lat_long_int_code3.csv | sort | uniq | wc -l
183
Therefore there are at most 27 (210-183) duplicates.
EDIT1
My desired output would be something as follows, basically all the columns but just showing the rows that are duplicates:
5 AG,17.060816,-61.796428,Antigua and Barbuda,1
6 AI,18.220554,-63.068615,Anguilla,1
One way to find duplicate records from the table is the GROUP BY statement. The GROUP BY statement in SQL is used to arrange identical data into groups with the help of some functions. i.e if a particular column has the same values in different rows then it will arrange these rows in a group.
This will give you the duplicated codes
awk -F, 'a[$5]++{print $5}'
if you're only interested in count of duplicate codes
awk -F, 'a[$5]++{count++} END{print count}'
To print duplicated rows try this
awk -F, '$5 in a{print a[$5]; print} {a[$5]=$0}'
This will print the whole row with duplicates found in col $5:
awk -F, 'a[$5]++{print $0}'
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