Egmont Koblinger wrote: >Hi, > >Plenty of text utilities are able to work with lines terminated by zero >bytes instead of newlines. "sort" is one example, which has an internal uniq >support, so "sort -z -u" sorts the input and removes adjacent identical >zero-terminated strings. > >However, standalone "uniq" (5.94) doesn't support this, so I can't perform a >"uniq" without a "sort" on zero-terminated strings. > >It would be nice if "uniq" also had a "-z" option. > > It would be nice. Also it would be nice to be able to specify fields like one can in sort. A work around until this gets implemented is:
tr '\0' '\n' | uniq | tr '\n' '\0' Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
