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From: Sascha Cunz <sascha-ml@babbelbox.org>
To: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
Cc: 'Marc Khouzam' <marc.khouzam@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, szeder@ira.uka.de,
	felipe.contreras@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Completion must sort before using uniq
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:26:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2630847.8aaR79v5Od@blacky> (raw)
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

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-23 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <002201cdc952$00159c90$0040d5b0$@schmitz-digital.de>
     [not found] ` <CAFj1UpEMKq9zH3nbLwYrNZRmd52_KEcN5BBrzGg2jxCzd+fsbA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-23 12:15   ` [PATCH] Completion must sort before using uniq Joachim Schmitz
2012-11-23 12:26     ` Sascha Cunz [this message]
2012-11-23 12:36       ` Joachim Schmitz
     [not found] <1353557598-4820-1-git-send-email-marc.khouzam@gmail.com>
2012-11-22  4:16 ` Marc Khouzam
2012-11-23  8:09   ` Joachim Schmitz
2012-11-23  8:21   ` Felipe Contreras

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