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From: | Pádraig Brady |
Subject: | Re: uniq: missing option -W / --check-fields=N |
Date: | Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:08:52 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060502) |
Matt Keenan wrote: > > Paul Eggert wrote: > >> Matt Keenan <address@hidden> writes: >> >> >> >>> Paul Eggert has mentioned that upstream uniq has never had a -W >>> flag. Would you be receptive to a patch? >>> >> >> >> I'm not sure. Does any distribution other than Debian-derived >> distributions have it? More importantly, what's it used for and >> useful for? >> > > The main purpose is so that checking can be done against fields as > opposed to just characters (think of fields that have an inconsistent > number of characters). The use I have for it is to get the final count > for the number of pages for a given CUPS job from the CUPS page_log > file. Making a patch from the debian sources is not a difficult task and > I can provide one if necessary. It would be great if one could specify fields (keys) like one can for the sort utility. Pádraig.
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