Section 1: uniq



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UNIQ(1)                        FSF                        UNIQ(1)


NAME

uniq - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file

SYNOPSIS

uniq [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]

DESCRIPTION

Discard all but one of successive identical lines from INPUT (or standard input), writing to OUTPUT (or standard output). -c, --count prefix lines by the number of occurrences -d, --repeated only print duplicate lines -D, --all-repeated print all duplicate lines -f, --skip-fields=N avoid comparing the first N fields -i, --ignore-case ignore differences in case when comparing -s, --skip-chars=N avoid comparing the first N characters -u, --unique only print unique lines -w, --check-chars=N compare no more than N characters in lines -N same as -f N +N same as -s N --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit A field is a run of whitespace, then non-whitespace char- acters. Fields are skipped before chars. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to . SEE ALSO The full documentation for uniq is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and uniq programs are properly installed at your site, the command GNU textutils 2.0 August 1999 1 UNIQ(1) FSF UNIQ(1) info uniq should give you access to the complete manual.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying condi- tions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. GNU textutils 2.0 August 1999 2