From: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:36:03 GMT
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Completion must sort before using uniq
Message-ID: <003c01cdc977$1a8a60e0$4f9f22a0$@schmitz-digital.de>
In-Reply-To: <2630847.8aaR79v5Od@blacky>

> From: Sascha Cunz [mailto:sascha-ml@babbelbox.org]
> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 1:26 PM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: 'Marc Khouzam'; git@vger.kernel.org; szeder@ira.uka.de; felipe.contreras@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Completion must sort before using uniq
> 
> > I can't see the difference and in fact don't understand uniq's -u option al
> > all Linux man pages say: "only print unique lines", but that is what uniq
> > does by default anyway?!?
> 
> From the german translation of uniq's man-page, you can deduct that "only
> print unique lines" actually means: "print lines that are _not repeated_ in
> the input".
> 
> A short test confirms that. i.e.:
> 
> 	printf "a\nb\nb\nc\n" | uniq -u
> 
> gives:
> 	a
> 	c

Ah, OK, then I rest my case. Sorry for the noise.