uniq not working

Markus Schönhaber cygwin@list-post.mks-mail.de
Tue Oct 11 12:54:00 GMT 2016


Am 11.10.2016 um 12:43 schrieb Felipe Vieira:

> the uniq program seems to be faulty on my cygwin:
> 
[...]
> /tmp » uniq -c u.txt
>       1 1
>       1 2
>       1 3
>       1 4
>       1 5
>       1 1
>       1 2
>       1 3
>       1 6
>       1 7
>       1 8
>       1
> /tmp »
> 
> As you can see it does not eliminate duplicate lines.
> This file was created with vim. Same results if created with windows notepad.
> What am I missing?

>From man uniq:

| Note:  'uniq' does not detect repeated lines unless they are
| adjacent.  You may want to sort the input first, or use 'sort -u'
| without 'uniq'.

-- 
Regards
  mks


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