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Old 03-17-2012
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Can anyone tell me what unique does? I accidentally typed unique instead of uniq into my terminal and it accepted it. I can't find a man page, an info page, or anything useful on google.
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Old 03-17-2012
There is a command uniq. If you have a "unique" command it is possibly an alias or link that some one created?

Check the man page for uniq.

Otherwise it doesn't look like a standard Unix command.

Which OS / Shell are you using?
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