User Commands                                             UNIQ(1)



NAME
     uniq - report or omit repeated lines

SYNOPSIS
     uniq [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]

DESCRIPTION
     Discard all but one of successive identical lines from INPUT
     (or standard input), writing to OUTPUT (or standard output).

     Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for  short
     options too.

     -c, --count
          prefix lines by the number of occurrences

     -d, --repeated
          only print duplicate lines

     -D, --all-repeated[=delimit-method]
          print           all           duplicate           lines
          delimit-method={none(default),prepend,separate}  Delim-
          iting is done with blank lines.

     -f, --skip-fields=N
          avoid comparing the first N fields

     -i, --ignore-case
          ignore differences in case when comparing

     -s, --skip-chars=N
          avoid comparing the first N characters

     -u, --unique
          only print unique lines

     -w, --check-chars=N
          compare no more than N characters in lines

     --help
          display this help and exit

     --version
          output version information and exit

     A field is a run of whitespace, then non-whitespace  charac-
     ters.  Fields are skipped before chars.

AUTHOR
     Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.





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User Commands                                             UNIQ(1)



REPORTING BUGS
     Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright O 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This is free software.  You may redistribute  copies  of  it
     under   the   terms   of  the  GNU  General  Public  License
     .  There  is  NO  WAR-
     RANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
     The full documentation for uniq is maintained as  a  Texinfo
     manual.    If  the  info  and  uniq  programs  are  properly
     installed at your site, the command

          info uniq

     should give you access to the complete manual.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE      ATRIBUTE VALUE  
    
     Availability         SUNWgnu-coreutils 
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted       
    

NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    coreutils    is     available     on
     http:/opensolaris.org.





















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