bug#6949: Uniq command should allow total to be displayed

[Miles Duke]

This is not a bug, but a feature request.

 

'uniq --count' is an excellent tool for summarizing data, but it is
missing one useful feature - an overall total.

 

It's embarrassing to have to go to excel to bring the totals together.

 

I suggest a new -t (--total) option:

 

*         When combined with '--count', it reports the sum of the count
lines

*         Without the '--count', it reports the number of lines printed
by uniq

 

As a new parameter, it will not break any scripts that rely upon the
current output of uniq.

 

 

Miles Duke (address@hidden)