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Re: Documentation for uniq/tr


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: Documentation for uniq/tr
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:17:09 +0000
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On 25/11/15 09:51, John Summerfield wrote:
> Here, and possibly other places, you say that the following command 
> eliminates duplicate blank lines.
> tr -s '\n'
> 
> This is in the --group discussion.
> 
> What happens is that it removes all blank lines (two or more NL characters).

True. That is confusing.
I also notice that the docs for tr -s aren't accurate.

patch coming up...



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