Re: uniq -c output

[Christopher Ness]

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 01:39, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I am hoping your use of fully qualified paths was only for the
> example.  Hard coded paths are Evil.
<snip>
> In the GNU documentation it says this:
> 
>     By default, `uniq' prints the unique lines in a sorted file, i.e.,
>     discards all but one of identical successive lines.  Optionally,
>     it can instead show only lines that appear exactly once, or lines
>     that appear more than once.
> 
>     The input must be sorted.  If your input is not sorted, perhaps
>     you want to use `sort -u'.
> 
> You can access the online documentation using the 'info' command.  The
> man page is created automatically from the 'uniq --help' output.  It
> is really intended only as a quick option reference and includes a
> pointer to the full manual.
> 
>     info uniq

There it is.  I never thought the man pages would be crippled WRT info. 
Which help system is prefered for GNU?

Cheers,
Chris
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