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From: | Matt Keenan |
Subject: | Re: uniq: missing option -W / --check-fields=N |
Date: | Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:37:59 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060619) |
Eric Blake wrote:
uniq(1) used to have an option for checking only a certain number of fields. I have since noticed that some scripts I wrote some time ago have stopped working because the -W / --check-fields=N option has disappeared. Can it please be put back in?It's still there in the latest stable version, 5.96: $ uniq --version | head -n1 uniq (GNU coreutils) 5.96 $ uniq --help | grep check -w, --check-chars=N compare no more than N characters in lines
not --check-chars=N, I'm talking about --check-fields=N.
I am happy to write a patch to do so if no-one else wants to do it. Is there a reason why it disappeared?Probably because you switched systems or PATH, and are no longer using the GNU coreutils version of uniq.
I upgraded recently from Debian Sarge to Ubuntu Dapper, and I noticed that the -W (note the caps!) flag had disappeared. Maybe it was a Debian distro patch. Paul Eggert has mentioned that upstream uniq has never had a -W flag. Would you be receptive to a patch? I'm happy to write one.
Matt
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