UNIQ(1) | General Commands Manual | UNIQ(1) |
uniq
— report or
filter out repeated lines in a file
uniq |
[-ci ] [-d |
-u ] [-f
fields] [-s
chars] [input_file
[output_file]] |
The uniq
utility reads the standard input
comparing adjacent lines and writes a copy of each unique input line to the
standard output. The second and succeeding copies of identical adjacent
input lines are not written. Repeated lines in the input will not be
detected if they are not adjacent, so it may be necessary to sort the files
first.
The options are as follows:
-c
-d
-f
fields-i
-s
chars-f
option, the first chars
characters after the first fields fields will be
ignored. Character numbers are one based, i.e., the first character is
character one.-u
If additional arguments are specified on the command line, the
first such argument is used as the name of an input file, the second is used
as the name of an output file. A file name of
‘-
’ denotes the standard input or the
standard output (depending on its position on the command line).
LC_CTYPE
This variable is ignored for case comparisons. Lower and upper case versions of non-ASCII characters are always considered different.
The uniq
utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs.
The uniq
utility is compliant with the
IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”)
specification.
The -i
option and the use of
-c
in conjunction with -d
or
-u
are extensions to that specification.
The historic +
number
and -
number options have been
deprecated but are still supported in this implementation.
December 23, 2017 | OpenBSD-current |