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Re: Documentation for uniq/tr
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: Documentation for uniq/tr |
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Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:18:09 +0000 |
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On 25/11/15 11:17, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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'
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>> This is in the --group discussion.
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>> What happens is that it removes all blank lines (two or more NL characters).
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> True. That is confusing.
> I also notice that the docs for tr -s aren't accurate.
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> patch coming up...
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