Re: uniq: missing option -W / --check-fields=N

[Matt Keenan]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Matt Keenan <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
> > Paul Eggert has mentioned that upstream uniq has never had a -W
> > flag. Would you be receptive to a patch?
> >     
>
> I'm not sure.  Does any distribution other than Debian-derived
> distributions have it?  More importantly, what's it used for and
> useful for?
>   
The main purpose is so that checking can be done against fields as 
opposed to just characters (think of fields that have an inconsistent 
number of characters). The use I have for it is to get the final count 
for the number of pages for a given CUPS job from the CUPS page_log 
file. Making a patch from the debian sources is not a difficult task and 
I can provide one if necessary.

Matt