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UNIQ(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual UNIQ(1)
NAME uniq - report or filter out repeated lines in a file
SYNOPSIS uniq [-c | -d | -D | -u] [-i] [-f num] [-s chars] [input_file [output_file]]
DESCRIPTION The uniq utility reads the specified input_file comparing adjacent lines, and writes a copy of each unique input line to the output_file. If input_file is a single dash (`-') or absent, the standard input is read. If output_file is absent, standard output is used for 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.
The following options are available:
-c, --count Precede each output line with the count of the number of times the line occurred in the input, followed by a single space.
-d, --repeated Output a single copy of each line that is repeated in the input.
-D, --all-repeated [septype] Output all lines that are repeated (like -d, but each copy of the repeated line is written). The optional septype argument controls how to separate groups of repeated lines in the output; it must be one of the following values:
none Do not separate groups of lines (this is the default). prepend Output an empty line before each group of lines. separate Output an empty line after each group of lines.
-f num, --skip-fields num Ignore the first num 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, i.e., the first field is field one.
-i, --ignore-case Case insensitive comparison of lines.
-s chars, --skip-chars chars Ignore the first chars characters in each input line when doing comparisons. If specified in conjunction with the -f, --unique option, the first chars characters after the first num fields will be ignored. Character numbers are one based, i.e., the first character is character one.
-u, --unique Only output lines that are not repeated in the input.
ENVIRONMENT The LANG, LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE environment variables affect the execution of uniq as described in environ(7). Madrid Lisbon Madrid
The following command reports three different lines since identical elements are not adjacent:
$ uniq -u cities.txt Madrid Lisbon Madrid
Sort the file and count the number of identical lines:
$ sort cities.txt | uniq -c 1 Lisbon 2 Madrid
Assuming the following content for the file cities.txt:
madrid Madrid Lisbon
Show repeated lines ignoring case sensitiveness:
$ uniq -d -i cities.txt madrid
Same as above but showing the whole group of repeated lines:
$ uniq -D -i cities.txt madrid Madrid
Report the number of identical lines ignoring the first character of every line:
$ uniq -s 1 -c cities.txt 2 madrid 1 Lisbon
COMPATIBILITY The historic +number and -number options have been deprecated but are still supported in this implementation.
SEE ALSO sort(1)
STANDARDS The uniq utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 ("POSIX.1") as amended by Cor. 1-2002.
HISTORY A uniq command appeared in Version 3 AT&T UNIX.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 June 7, 2020 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11