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bug#16831: don't say uniq -D -c is meaningless
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Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#16831: don't say uniq -D -c is meaningless |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:15:49 +0000 |
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On 02/21/2014 02:28 PM, mcmasters wrote:
> I think uniq -D -c may be meaningful when used in conjuction with -f
> Specifically, I wanted to use uniq -D -c -f 1 to find lines that are
> identical with respect to field 2 (-f 1), get a listing of how many times
> they occur (-c), but not throw away the differences in field 1 (-D)
> Is there a way to do that with uniq?
So given:
a v1
b v2
c v2
you want output like this?
2 b v2
2 c v2
It's unusual to repeat counts like that,
and uniq doesn't support that at present.
Could you expand on the use case perhaps?
thanks,
Pádraig.