On Dec 18, 2007 6:40 AM, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As an aside, I'm wondering if the --help output for uniq should be a bit > > more explicit about this property; contrast it with the output for join, > > Unlike 'join', the input to 'uniq' need not be sorted, so it's not > immediately clear how to reword its --help output.
Probably too long: $ diff -ub uniq.help.orig uniq.help.new --- uniq.help.orig 2007-12-18 10:22:47.000000000 +0000 +++ uniq.help.new 2007-12-18 10:24:22.000000000 +0000 @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ Discard all but one of successive identical lines from INPUT (or standard input), writing to OUTPUT (or standard output). +If INPUT is not already sorted, or it was sorted using only part of +each line as the key, then more than one copy of a line may appear in +OUTPUT (because they did not appear consecutively in INPUT). + Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -c, --count prefix lines by the number of occurrences -d, --repeated only print duplicate lines _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
