Re: Problem with uniq command

[Andreas Schwab]

Miroslaw Kozielski <address@hidden> writes:

> /I think that output should be:
>
> /    *2 ba111*.
>   1 ba112.
>   1 bs112.
>   1 bm123.
>   1 ba123.
> /
> How can I resolve this problem?

>From the coreutils docs:

       The input need not be sorted, but repeated input lines are detected
    only if they are adjacent.  If you want to discard non-adjacent
    duplicate lines, perhaps you want to use `sort -u'.  *Note sort
    invocation::.

Andreas.

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