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Re: [PATCH] Completion must sort before using uniq

From
SCSascha Cunz <sascha-ml@babbelbox.org>
Date
Nov 23, 2012, 12:26 UTC
Message-ID
<2630847.8aaR79v5Od@blacky>
In-Reply-To
<003b01cdc974$4cdd1900$e6974b00$@schmitz-digital.de>
> 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
Sascha
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