Uniq

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Overview

The command is a kind of filter program. Typically it is used after sort. It can also output only the duplicate lines (with the -d option), or add the number of occurrences of each line (with the -c option). For example, the following command lists the unique lines in a file, sorted by the number of times each occurs:

<syntaxhighlight lang="sh"> $ sort file | uniq -c | sort -n </syntaxhighlight>

Using uniq like this is common when building pipelines in shell scripts.

History

First appearing in Version 3 Unix,<ref name="reader">Template:Cite tech report</ref> uniq is now available for a number of different Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is part of the X/Open Portability Guide since issue 2 of 1987. It was inherited into the first version of POSIX and the Single Unix Specification.<ref>Template:Man</ref>

The version bundled in GNU coreutils was written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.<ref>Template:Man</ref>

A uniq command is also part of ASCII's MSX-DOS2 Tools for MSX-DOS version 2.<ref>MSX-DOS2 Tools User's Manual by ASCII Corporation</ref>

The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the GnuWin32 project<ref>CoreUtils for Windows</ref> and the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.<ref>Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities</ref>

The Template:Mono command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

• List of Unix commands

External links

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• SourceForge UnxUtils – Port of several GNU utilities to Windows