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Re: uniq -c output
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Christopher Ness |
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Re: uniq -c output |
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Sat, 17 Apr 2004 07:50:21 -0400 |
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 01:39, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I am hoping your use of fully qualified paths was only for the
> example. Hard coded paths are Evil.
<snip>
> In the GNU documentation it says this:
>
> By default, `uniq' prints the unique lines in a sorted file, i.e.,
> discards all but one of identical successive lines. Optionally,
> it can instead show only lines that appear exactly once, or lines
> that appear more than once.
>
> The input must be sorted. If your input is not sorted, perhaps
> you want to use `sort -u'.
>
> You can access the online documentation using the 'info' command. The
> man page is created automatically from the 'uniq --help' output. It
> is really intended only as a quick option reference and includes a
> pointer to the full manual.
>
> info uniq
There it is. I never thought the man pages would be crippled WRT info.
Which help system is prefered for GNU?
Cheers,
Chris
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