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'.
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Regards
mks
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