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UNIQ(1) 							   User Commands							   UNIQ(1)

NAME

       uniq - report or omit repeated lines

SYNOPSIS

       uniq [OPTION]... [INPUT [OUTPUT]]

DESCRIPTION

       Discard all but one of successive identical lines from INPUT (or standard input), writing to OUTPUT (or standard output).

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -c, --count
	      prefix lines by the number of occurrences

       -d, --repeated
	      only print duplicate lines

       -D, --all-repeated[=delimit-method]
	      print all duplicate lines delimit-method={none(default),prepend,separate} Delimiting is done with blank lines.

       -f, --skip-fields=N
	      avoid comparing the first N fields

       -i, --ignore-case
	      ignore differences in case when comparing

       -s, --skip-chars=N
	      avoid comparing the first N characters

       -u, --unique
	      only print unique lines

       -z, --zero-terminated
	      end lines with 0 byte, not newline

       -w, --check-chars=N
	      compare no more than N characters in lines

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       A field is a run of blanks (usually spaces and/or TABs), then non-blank characters.  Fields are skipped before chars.

       Note:  'uniq'  does  not  detect  repeated  lines unless they are adjacent.  You may want to sort the input first, or use `sort -u' without
       `uniq'.

AUTHOR

       Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report uniq bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
       GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for uniq is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and uniq programs are properly installed at your site,  the
       command

	      info coreutils 'uniq invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.

GNU coreutils 7.1						     July 2010								   UNIQ(1)