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From: "Markus Schönhaber" <cygwin@list-post.mks-mail.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: uniq not working
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d806984a-4d8d-bc8b-3e5a-2d2603f9a0be@list-post.mks-mail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMZ6u3uuA8Jvz5pKtcrmb6M01WfEFVBduCPv23iu1FgKb=C+UQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-11 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-11 10:56 Felipe Vieira
2016-10-11 10:58 ` Csaba Raduly
2016-10-11 14:20   ` Henry S. Thompson
2016-10-11 14:33     ` Andrey Repin
2016-10-11 16:02       ` Henry S. Thompson
2016-10-11 12:54 ` Markus Schönhaber [this message]
2016-10-13 16:58 Felipe Vieira

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