[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > But -u -d is clearly valid, since POSIX says it's valid. > > have you a link to the POSIX docs?
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/uniq.html In order to understand that page fully, you need to read a lot of the other part of the spec. But for this particular issue the page is pretty self-explanatory. > > -u Discard the first repeated line. > > This isn't as clear to me as "only print unique lines" Perhaps not, but "only print unique lines" isn't correct. > > Under this convention, -D is not incompatible with -d or with -u. > > agreed, but redundant => should warn user as I summarised above I don't see why a warning would be useful. GNU utilities often accept redundant options without complaint. > All this is too complicated. IMHO uniq should just have > > --group={min,max,num_to_show,delimter} That's simpler? I dunno.... _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
