Re: Feat-Req: uniq -c delimiter should be changable

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 04:36:30PM +0200, Maximilian Haeussler wrote:
> 
> Let's say I only want the 50 most common lines of a file:
> cat textfile | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 50 | tr -s ' ' | cut -f2
> 
> This will only print the first word of each line with the current uniq
> version though if uniq -c understood -d/-t it would print the whole

You should tell `cut' to output every field starting after the number
field inserted by `uniq':

sort textfile | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n50 | tr -s ' ' | cut -f3- -d' '

Erik