Skip to content

Remove Duplicate Lines

Clean up text by removing duplicate lines. Choose case sensitivity, trimming, keeping first/last, sorting, and counts. Run locally or via Django API.

Keep

Order
Line endings

Status

Idle
Tip: Ctrl/Cmd + Enter to run.
Read‑only. Use Copy or Download.

Removing Duplicate Lines — Practical Tips

Deduping is essential when cleaning logs, email lists, CSV extracts, and scraped data. This tool removes repeated lines, optionally trimming whitespace, ignoring blanks, and counting occurrences. Use “Keep Last” when downstream data needs the most recent entry.

Common scenarios

  • Normalize subscriber lists (case-insensitive)
  • Collapse noisy logs by unique message
  • Quick dedupe of exported IDs

Settings to try

  • Trim + Ignore empty to avoid false duplicates
  • Keep last to prefer latest occurrences
  • Show counts to see frequency

Line endings

  • Use CRLF for Windows tools
  • Use LF for Unix/Git
  • Keep to auto‑match the input

Example

Input:
alice
bob
Alice
bob
alice

Options: Case-insensitive, Trim, Ignore empty, Keep First
Output:
alice
bob