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Re: uniq --accumulate
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: uniq --accumulate |
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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:00:39 +0000 |
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On 02/07/2012 03:56 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Suppose that I have a table of the following, where the last column is
> a number. I'd like to accumulate the number of rows that are the same
> for all the remaining columns.
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> A 1
> A 3
> X 2
> X 3
> Y 3
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> The result will be the following. Although this is can be easily done
> by awk, etc, I'm wondering if it is worthwhile to add an additional
> option '--accumulate' to uniq. I'd recommend adding such an option if
> anybody in coreutils develop team also think this is useful.
>
> A 4
> X 5
> Y 3
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Thanks for the suggestion,
but this is too specialized for coreutils I think.
cheers,
Pádraig.