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<h2>uniq - Report or filter out repeated lines in a file</h2>
<p><strong>Synopsis</strong></p>
<p><strong>uniq [-c | -du] [-f</strong> <em>fields</em><strong>]
[-s</strong> <em>chars</em><strong>]</strong> [<em>input_file</em>
[<em>output_file</em>]]</p>
<p><strong>Description</strong></p>
<p>The <strong>uniq</strong> 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 may
be necessary to sort the files first.</p>
<p><strong>Options</strong></p>
<dl>
<dt><strong>-c</strong></dt>
<dd>Precede each output line with the count of the number of times
the line occurred in the input, followed by a single space.</dd>
<dt><strong>-d</strong></dt>
<dd>Suppress the writing of lines that are not repeated in the
input.</dd>
<dt><strong>-f</strong> <em>fields</em></dt>
<dd>Ignore the first <em>fields</em> 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, so the first field is field one.</dd>
<dt><strong>-s</strong> <em>chars</em></dt>
<dd>Ignore the first <em>chars</em> characters in each input line
when doing comparisons. If specified in conjunction with the
<strong>-f</strong> option, the first <em>chars</em> characters
after the first <em>fields</em> fields will be ignored. Character
numbers are one based, so the first character is character
one.</dd>
<dt><strong>-u</strong></dt>
<dd>Suppress the writing of lines that are repeated in the
input.</dd>
</dl>
<p><strong>Operands</strong></p>
<p>If additional arguments are specified on the command line, the
first such argument is used as the name of an input file, the
second is used as the name of an output file.</p>
<p><strong>Exit Status</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>0 on success</li>
<li>&gt;0 if an error occurs</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Related information</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="cmp.htm">cmp - Compare two files</a></li>
<li><a href="sed.htm">sed - Stream editor</a></li>
<li><a href="split.htm">split - Split files into pieces</a></li>
<li><a href="sort.htm">sort - Sort, merge, or sequence check text
files</a></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Examples</strong></p>
<p>In the following examples, the contents of example file are:</p>
<pre>
There are 5 apples
There are 9 oranges
There are 9 oranges
There are 2 pears
</pre>
<ol>
<li>Display the unique lines in the file "fruit".
<pre>
uniq fruit
There are 5 apples
There are 9 oranges
There are 2 pears
</pre>
</li>
<li>Display the lines that repeat in the file "fruit".
<pre>
uniq -d fruit
There are 9 oranges
</pre>
</li>
<li>Display a list of how many times a line is repeated in the file
"fruit".
<pre>
uniq -c fruit
1 There are 5 apples
2 There are 9 oranges
1 There are 2 pears
</pre>
</li>
</ol>
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