On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 03:42:13PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
> >>>>> "Rick" == Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Rick> Have you looked at 'uniq'?
>
> uniq still needs the lines to be sorted:
>
> # man uniq
>
> [...]
>
> NAME
> uniq - remove duplicate lines from a *sorted* file
>
> [...]
>
> (emphasis mine)
Not really. It will remove adjacent duplicate lines whether or not the
file is sorted. For example, it will compress multiple blank lines to
single blank lines throughout a file. The title is wrong.
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