MirBSD manpage: uniq(1)

UNIQ(1)                      BSD Reference Manual                      UNIQ(1)

NAME

     uniq - report or filter out repeated lines in a file

SYNOPSIS

     uniq [-c | -d | -u] [-i] [-f fields] [-s chars]
          [input_file [output_file]]

DESCRIPTION

     The uniq utility reads the standard input comparing adjacent lines and
     writes a copy of each unique input line to the standard output. The
     second and succeeding copies of identical adjacent input lines are not
     written. Repeated lines in the input will not be detected if they are not
     adjacent, so it may be necessary to sort the files first.

     The options are as follows:

     -c      Precede each output line with the count of the number of times
             the line occurred in the input, followed by a single space.

     -d      Only output lines which have duplicates.

     -f fields
             Ignore the first fields in each input line when doing comparis-
             ons. A field is a string of non-blank characters separated from
             adjacent fields by blanks. Field numbers are one based, i.e., the
             first field is field one.

     -i      Compare case-insensitively.

     -s chars
             Ignore the first chars characters in each input line when doing
             comparisons. If specified in conjunction with the -f option, the
             first chars characters after the first fields fields will be ig-
             nored. Character numbers are one based, i.e., the first character
             is character one.

     -u      Only output lines which are unique.

     If additional arguments are specified on the command line, the first such
     argument is used as the name of an input file, the second is used as the
     name of an output file. A file name of '-' denotes the standard input or
     the standard output (depending on its position on the command line).

     The uniq utility exits 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred.

SEE ALSO

     sort(1)

STANDARDS

     The historic +number and -number options have been deprecated but are
     still supported in this implementation.

     The uniq utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 ("POSIX.2") compati-
     ble.

     The -i option has been added in MirBSD #8.

MirBSD #10-current             December 8, 2002                              1

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