Re: uniq not working

[Felipe Vieira <fmv1992 at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Felipe Vieira <fmv1992@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear mailing list,
>
> the uniq program seems to be faulty on my cygwin:
>
> /tmp » cat u.txt
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 6
> 7
> 8
>
>
> /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?
>
> Best,

Thanks Csaba.

I have read the manual but did not understand it completely; missed
one word (adjacent) and that changed everything.

Best regards : )

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