X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:reply-to:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=pE/YT8jTn5Tf4H6G 3mPUjGj8q58UFID4K86CAKbIRy/isLF52n8OMQjpY1fc9IOfjvuPrODb2jQ+R2KZ szA3anRSONHM5uwOH8HV203paJwV1JbSfhOVMYqKw3IADGh25HMXsRxdmaqFWQxX S1L7mV/dYlJFUkek0pouHHa866Q= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:reply-to:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=YHGRm3FYqYHkiV/bcNyPMw Bt1Gg=; b=ESDUOaKDq4Lkoi48scQn7U25fh9WOYS0Vcxdnl2QJwZH8Rijb4vh7p 2+iu95RWBw76M/qFUx/pYtoxSMZfl/3uyuCzlK56p25O8M9ew4tfG9VGXP5LMWr5 iAu8vlUZLzKAOQfhN9zv1ZW5tcOGfnw014PKJPKkKYesj2RWbT9Yo= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*r:ip*192.168.1.101, H*r:LMTP, H*M:post, H*MI:sk:UQ AT mail X-HELO: mail.ddt-consult.de Subject: Re: uniq not working To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: =?UTF-8?Q?Markus_Sch=c3=b6nhaber?= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:58:29 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Am 11.10.2016 um 12:43 schrieb Felipe Vieira: > the uniq program seems to be faulty on my cygwin: > [...] > /tmp » uniq -c u.txt > 1 1 > 1 2 > 1 3 > 1 4 > 1 5 > 1 1 > 1 2 > 1 3 > 1 6 > 1 7 > 1 8 > 1 > /tmp » > > As you can see it does not eliminate duplicate lines. > This file was created with vim. Same results if created with windows notepad. > What am I missing? From man uniq: | Note: 'uniq' does not detect repeated lines unless they are | adjacent. You may want to sort the input first, or use 'sort -u' | without 'uniq'. -- Regards mks -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple