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1.1       root        1: .TH UNIQ 1  "10 February 1983"
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: uniq \- report repeated lines in a file
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B uniq
                      6: [
                      7: .B \-udc
                      8: [
                      9: .BR + n
                     10: ] [
                     11: .BR \- n
                     12: ]
                     13: ] [ input [ output ] ]
                     14: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     15: .I Uniq
                     16: reads the input file comparing adjacent lines.
                     17: In the normal case, the second and succeeding copies of repeated lines are
                     18: removed; the remainder is written on the output file.
                     19: Note that repeated lines must be adjacent in order to be found; see
                     20: .IR  sort (1).
                     21: If the
                     22: .B \-u
                     23: flag is used, just the lines that are not repeated
                     24: in the original file are output.  The
                     25: .B \-d
                     26: option specifies that one copy of just the repeated lines is to be written.
                     27: The normal mode output is the union of the
                     28: .B \-u
                     29: and
                     30: .B \-d
                     31: mode outputs.
                     32: .PP
                     33: The
                     34: .B \-c
                     35: option supersedes
                     36: .B \-u
                     37: and
                     38: .B \-d
                     39: and generates an output report in default style
                     40: but with each line preceded by a count of the number of times it occurred.
                     41: .PP
                     42: The
                     43: .I n
                     44: arguments specify skipping an initial portion of each line in the comparison:
                     45: .TP 8
                     46: .BI \- n
                     47: The first
                     48: .IR n 
                     49: fields together with any blanks before each are ignored.
                     50: A field is defined as a string of non-space, non-tab characters
                     51: separated by tabs and spaces from its neighbors.
                     52: .TP 8
                     53: .BI + n
                     54: The first
                     55: .IR n 
                     56: characters are ignored.  Fields are skipped before characters.
                     57: .PP
                     58: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     59: sort(1), comm(1)

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