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Report or omit repeated lines.

Synopsis

uniq [-D|--all-repeated] [--group] [-w|--check-chars] [-c|--count] [-i|--ignore-case] [-d|--repeated] [-s|--skip-chars] [-f|--skip-fields] [-u|--unique] [-z|--zero-terminated] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [files]

Description

Report or omit repeated lines.

Options

-D,  --all-repeated[=<delimit-method>]

print all duplicate lines. Delimiting is done with blank lines. [default: none]

Possible values:

  • none
  • prepend
  • separate
--group[=<group-method>]

show all items, separating groups with an empty line. [default: separate]

Possible values:

  • separate
  • prepend
  • append
  • both
-w,  --check-chars <N>

compare no more than N characters in lines

-c,  --count

prefix lines by the number of occurrences

-i,  --ignore-case

ignore differences in case when comparing

-d,  --repeated

only print duplicate lines

-s,  --skip-chars <N>

avoid comparing the first N characters

-f,  --skip-fields <N>

avoid comparing the first N fields

-u,  --unique

only print unique lines

-z,  --zero-terminated

end lines with 0 byte, not newline

-h,  --help

Print help

-V,  --version

Print version

Extra

Filter adjacent matching lines from INPUT (or standard input), writing to OUTPUT (or standard output).

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.

Version

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

Info

uniq (uutils coreutils) 0.7.0