From: filegod@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 10:01:52 AM UTC-7, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:   
   > I have a string that I wish to prepend to my path, say:   
   >    
   >   set x=C:\A;C:\A;C:\B;C:\A;C:\B;C:\B;C:\A   
   >    
   > Typically x has about 6 components but only 2 unique ones.  I do not know   
   ahead of time what the components are.  I would like to remove all but the   
   first occurrence of any component. We can assume that duplicate components   
   appear in the exact same    
   form as the non-duplicates, (e.g. we would never have both C:\X\Y and   
   C:/X/Y).  In the above example variable x's value is the input and the result   
   would be:   
   >    
   >   C:\A;C:\B   
   >    
   > Some desirable criteria include:   
   > - not to use any software that does not come with Windows   
   > - run quickly as its done on the fly each time I run an associated program   
   so it could affect the start up time if it were too slow   
   > - I would prefer not to write any files in doing this   
   >    
   > I guess I could just ignore this issue and just let there be duplicates on   
   the path (and in fact that is what I am currently doing) but if there is a   
   nice solution to this it would make the resulting PATH a bit cleaner.   
      
   You mean you want to remove duplicate lines of text right? here is that   
   DelDupeText.cmd I wrote a few years ago:   
      
   ::DelDupeText.cmd   
   @echo off   
   for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in (Old.txt) do (   
   find /i "%%a" New.txt   
   if errorlevel 1 echo %%a>>New.txt   
   )   
      
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