From: Sascha Cunz <sascha-ml@babbelbox.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:26:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Completion must sort before using uniq
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