Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> uniq - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file
> therefore if it fails to remove duplicate lines from a sorted file,
> then it will return nonzero
I installed this to help avoid the confusion:
2004-10-20 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* man/uniq.x: Change summary so that it doesn't imply that
uniq writes to its input file. Problem reported by
Dan Jacobson.
Index: man/uniq.x
===================================================================
RCS file: /fetish/cu/man/uniq.x,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -p -u -r1.2 uniq.x
--- man/uniq.x 2 Nov 1999 13:58:56 -0000 1.2
+++ man/uniq.x 20 Oct 2004 20:17:43 -0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
[NAME]
-uniq \- remove duplicate lines from a sorted file
+uniq \- report or omit repeated lines
[DESCRIPTION]
.\" Add any additional description here
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