UNIQ linux command manual

UNIQ(1)                          User Commands                         UNIQ(1)



NAME
       uniq - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file

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

DESCRIPTION
       Discard all but one of successive identical lines from INPUT (or stan-
       dard 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}  Delimiting  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  characters.
       Fields are skipped before chars.

AUTHOR
       Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This  is  free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There
       is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

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 coreutils uniq

       should give you access to the complete manual.



uniq (coreutils) 5.2.1             May 2004                           UNIQ(1)