Manual page for UNIQ(1)
uniq - report repeated lines in a file
SYNOPSIS
uniq
[
-udc
[
+n
] [
-n
]
] [ input [ output ] ]
DESCRIPTION
Uniq
reads the input file comparing adjacent lines.
In the normal case, the second and succeeding copies of repeated lines are
removed; the remainder is written on the output file.
Note that repeated lines must be adjacent in order to be found; see
sort.1
If the
-u
flag is used, just the lines that are not repeated
in the original file are output. The
-d
option specifies that one copy of just the repeated lines is to be written.
The normal mode output is the union of the
-u
and
-d
mode outputs.
The
-c
option supersedes
-u
and
-d
and generates an output report in default style
but with each line preceded by a count of the number of times it occurred.
The
n
arguments specify skipping an initial portion of each line in the comparison:
- -n
-
The first
n
fields together with any blanks before each are ignored.
A field is defined as a string of non-space, non-tab characters
separated by tabs and spaces from its neighbors.
- +n
-
The first
n
characters are ignored. Fields are skipped before characters.
SEE ALSO
sort(1), comm(1)
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Last modified 11/5/97
