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+.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
+.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
+.\"
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+.\"
+.Dd December 9, 2024
+.Dt UNIQ 1
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm uniq
+.Nd report or filter out repeated lines in a file
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Op Fl cdiu
+.Op Fl D Ns Op Ar septype
+.Op Fl f Ar num
+.Op Fl s Ar chars
+.Oo
+.Ar input_file
+.Op Ar output_file
+.Oc
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Nm
+utility reads the specified
+.Ar input_file
+comparing adjacent lines, and writes a copy of each unique input line to
+the
+.Ar output_file .
+If
+.Ar input_file
+is a single dash
+.Pq Sq Fl
+or absent, the standard input is read.
+If
+.Ar output_file
+is absent, standard output is used for output.
+The second and succeeding copies of identical adjacent input lines are
+not written.
+Repeated lines in the input will not be detected if they are not adjacent,
+so it may be necessary to sort the files first.
+.Pp
+The following options are available:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl c , Fl -count
+Precede each output line with the count of the number of times the line
+occurred in the input, followed by a single space.
+.It Fl d , Fl -repeated
+Output a single copy of each line that is repeated in the input.
+Ignored if
+.Fl D
+is also specified.
+.It Fl D , Fl -all-repeated Op Ar septype
+Output all lines that are repeated (like
+.Fl d ,
+but each copy of the repeated line is written).
+The optional
+.Ar septype
+argument controls how to separate groups of repeated lines in the output;
+it must be one of the following values:
+.Pp
+.Bl -tag -compact -width separate
+.It none
+Do not separate groups of lines (this is the default).
+.It prepend
+Output an empty line before each group of lines.
+.It separate
+Output an empty line after each group of lines.
+.El
+.It Fl f Ar num , Fl -skip-fields Ar num
+Ignore the first
+.Ar num
+fields in each input line when doing comparisons.
+A field is a string of non-blank characters separated from adjacent fields
+by blanks.
+Field numbers are one based, i.e., the first field is field one.
+.It Fl i , Fl -ignore-case
+Case insensitive comparison of lines.
+.It Fl s Ar chars , Fl -skip-chars Ar chars
+Ignore the first
+.Ar chars
+characters in each input line when doing comparisons.
+If specified in conjunction with the
+.Fl f , Fl -unique
+option, the first
+.Ar chars
+characters after the first
+.Ar num
+fields will be ignored.
+Character numbers are one based, i.e., the first character is character one.
+.It Fl u , Fl -unique
+Only output lines that are not repeated in the input.
+.\".It Fl Ns Ar n
+.\"(Deprecated; replaced by
+.\".Fl f ) .
+.\"Ignore the first n
+.\"fields on each input line when doing comparisons,
+.\"where n is a number.
+.\"A field is a string of non-blank
+.\"characters separated from adjacent fields
+.\"by blanks.
+.\".It Cm \&\(pl Ns Ar n
+.\"(Deprecated; replaced by
+.\".Fl s ) .
+.\"Ignore the first
+.\".Ar m
+.\"characters when doing comparisons, where
+.\".Ar m
+.\"is a
+.\"number.
+.El
+.Sh ENVIRONMENT
+The
+.Ev LANG ,
+.Ev LC_ALL ,
+.Ev LC_COLLATE
+and
+.Ev LC_CTYPE
+environment variables affect the execution of
+.Nm
+as described in
+.Xr environ 7 .
+.Sh EXIT STATUS
+.Ex -std
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+Assuming a file named cities.txt with the following content:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+Madrid
+Lisbon
+Madrid
+.Ed
+.Pp
+The following command reports three different lines since identical elements
+are not adjacent:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ uniq -u cities.txt
+Madrid
+Lisbon
+Madrid
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Sort the file and count the number of identical lines:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ sort cities.txt | uniq -c
+ 1 Lisbon
+ 2 Madrid
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Assuming the following content for the file cities.txt:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+madrid
+Madrid
+Lisbon
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Show repeated lines ignoring case sensitiveness:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ uniq -d -i cities.txt
+madrid
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Same as above but showing the whole group of repeated lines:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ uniq -D -i cities.txt
+madrid
+Madrid
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Report the number of identical lines ignoring the first character of every line:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+$ uniq -s 1 -c cities.txt
+ 2 madrid
+ 1 Lisbon
+.Ed
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+The historic
+.Cm \&\(pl Ns Ar number
+and
+.Fl Ns Ar number
+options have been deprecated but are still supported in this implementation.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr sort 1
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Nm
+utility conforms to
+.St -p1003.1-2001
+as amended by Cor.\& 1-2002.
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Nm
+command appeared in
+.At v3 .