Remove duplicate characters from a string while keeping only the first occurrence of each character.
Code
Generalecho "$s" | awk '{while(match($0,/./)){c=substr($0,RSTART,1);if(!a[c]++)printf c;$0=substr($0,RSTART+1)}}'Parameters
The string to remove duplicates from
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