Question

To find duplicates you can use

sort | uniq -d

but is there a quick way to find triplicates?

Answer 1

You can use:

sort | uniq -c | awk '$1 == 3'

uniq -c gives you a count of occurences in the first column. The awk line filters all lines with has 3 in the first column.

If you want all items occuring 3 or more times write $1 >= 3

You can also pick out just the items names with (if they are just one column with no spaces) with:

sort | uniq -c | awk '$1 >= 3 {print $2}'

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