uniq

NAME

uniq - report or filter out repeated lines in a file

SYNOPSIS

uniq [-c|-d|-u] [-f fields] [-s chars]
	 [input_file[output_file]]

DESCRIPTION

The uniq(1) utility reads the standard input comparing adjacent lines, and writes a copy of each unique input line to the standard output. The second and succeeding copies of identical adjacent input lines are not written. Repeated lines in the input will not be detected if they are not adjacent, so it might be necessary to sort the files first.

The following options are available:

-c

Precede each output line with the count of the number of times the line occurred in the input, followed by a single space.

-d

Do not output lines that are not repeated in the input.

-f fields

Ignore the first fields in each input line when doing comparisons. A field is a string of non-blank characters separated from adjacent fields by blanks. Field numbers are one based; that is, the first field is field one.

-s chars

Ignore the first chars characters in each input line when doing comparisons. If specified in conjunction with the -f option, the first chars characters after the first fields fields will be ignored. Character numbers are one based; that is, the first character is character one.

-u

Do not output lines that are repeated in the input.

If additional arguments are specified on the command line, the first such argument is used as the name of an input file, and the second is used as the name of an output file.

DIAGNOSTICS

The uniq(1) utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

sort(1)