plan9port/man/man1/uniq.1
Russ Cox 977b25a76a tmac: introduce real manual reference macro instead of overloading IR
The overloading of IR emits magic \X'...' sequences that turn into HTML manual links.
But not all such IR invocations should be manual links;
those had to be written to avoid the IR macro before.
Worse, the \X'...' ending the IR causes troff to emit only a single space after a period.

Defining a new IM macro for manual references fixes both problems.

Fixes #441.
2020-08-13 23:43:43 -04:00

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.TH UNIQ 1
.SH NAME
uniq \- report repeated lines in a file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B uniq
[
.B -udc
[
.BI +- num
]
]
[
.I file
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Uniq
copies the input
.IR file ,
or the standard input, to the
standard output, comparing adjacent lines.
In the normal case, the second and succeeding copies
of repeated lines are
removed.
Repeated lines must be adjacent
in order to be found.
.TP
.B -u
Print unique lines.
.TP
.B -d
Print (one copy of) duplicated lines.
.TP
.B -c
Prefix a repetition count and a tab to each output line.
Implies
.B -u
and
.BR -d .
.TP
.BI - num
The first
.IR num
fields
together with any blanks before each are ignored.
A field is defined as a string of non-space, non-tab characters
separated by tabs and spaces from its neighbors.
.TP
.BI + num
The first
.IR num
characters are ignored.
Fields are skipped before characters.
.SH SOURCE
.B \*9/src/cmd/uniq.c
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR sort (1)
.SH BUGS
Field selection and comparison should be compatible with
.IM sort (1) .