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A <code>uniq</code> command is also part of [[ASCII Corporation|ASCII]]'s ''MSX-DOS2 Tools'' for [[MSX-DOS]] version 2.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/MSXDOS2TOOLS MSX-DOS2 Tools User's Manual by ASCII Corporation]</ref>
A <code>uniq</code> command is also part of [[ASCII Corporation|ASCII]]'s ''MSX-DOS2 Tools'' for [[MSX-DOS]] version 2.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/MSXDOS2TOOLS MSX-DOS2 Tools User's Manual by ASCII Corporation]</ref>


The command is available as a separate package for [[Microsoft Windows]] as part of the [[GnuWin32]] project<ref>[http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm CoreUtils for Windows]</ref> and the [[UnxUtils]] collection of [[Native (computing)|native]] [[Windows API|Win32]] [[porting|ports]] of common GNU Unix-like utilities.<ref>[http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities]</ref>
The command is available as a separate package for [[Microsoft Windows]] as part of the [[GnuWin32]] project<ref>[https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm CoreUtils for Windows]</ref> and the [[UnxUtils]] collection of [[Native (computing)|native]] [[Windows API|Win32]] [[porting|ports]] of common GNU Unix-like utilities.<ref>[https://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities]</ref>


The {{Mono|uniq}} command has also been ported to the [[IBM i]] operating system.<ref>{{cite web |title=IBM System i Version 7.2 Programming Qshell |language=en |author=IBM |website=[[IBM]] |author-link=IBM |url=https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_74/rzahz/rzahzpdf.pdf?view=kc |access-date=2020-09-05 }}</ref>
The {{Mono|uniq}} command has also been ported to the [[IBM i]] operating system.<ref>{{cite web |title=IBM System i Version 7.2 Programming Qshell |language=en |author=IBM |website=[[IBM]] |author-link=IBM |url=https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_74/rzahz/rzahzpdf.pdf?view=kc |access-date=2020-09-05 }}</ref>

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:Lowercase title Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other uniq is a utility command on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems which, when fed a text file or standard input, outputs the text with adjacent identical lines collapsed to one, unique line of text.

Overview

The command is a kind of filter program. Typically it is used after sort. It can also output only the duplicate lines (with the -d option), or add the number of occurrences of each line (with the -c option). For example, the following command lists the unique lines in a file, sorted by the number of times each occurs:

$ sort file | uniq -c | sort -n

Using uniq like this is common when building pipelines in shell scripts.

History

First appearing in Version 3 Unix,[1] uniq is now available for a number of different Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is part of the X/Open Portability Guide since issue 2 of 1987. It was inherited into the first version of POSIX and the Single Unix Specification.[2]

The version bundled in GNU coreutils was written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.[3]

A uniq command is also part of ASCII's MSX-DOS2 Tools for MSX-DOS version 2.[4]

The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the GnuWin32 project[5] and the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.[6]

The Template:Mono command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system.[7]

See also

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