uniq
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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
References
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- ↑ – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 5 from The Open Group
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- ↑ MSX-DOS2 Tools User's Manual by ASCII Corporation
- ↑ CoreUtils for Windows
- ↑ Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities
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External links
- – Linux User Manual – User Commands
- – Plan 9 Programmer's Manual, Volume 1
- – Template:Man/Inferno
- SourceForge UnxUtils – Port of several GNU utilities to Windows
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