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UNIQ

Section: FSF (1)
Updated: February 2003
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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).

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-c, --count
prefix lines by the number of occurrences
-d, --repeated
only print duplicate lines
-D, --all-repeated[=delimit-method] print all duplicate lines
delimit-method={none(default),prepend,separate} Delimiting is done with blank 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
--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit

A field is a run of whitespace, then non-whitespace characters. Fields are skipped before chars.  

AUTHOR

Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.  

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  

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
info uniq

should give you access to the complete manual.

 

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