The uniq command (GNU Coreutils 9.0)
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The uniq Command
Finally (at least for now), we’ll look at the uniq
program. When sorting data, you will often end up with duplicate lines, lines that are identical. Usually, all you need is one instance of each line. This is where uniq
comes in. The uniq
program reads its standard input. It prints only one copy of each repeated line. It does have several options. Later on, we’ll use the -c
option, which prints each unique line, preceded by a count of the number of times that line occurred in the input.