On 12/26/11 08:35, Pádraig Brady wrote: > supporting --key would not provide this functionality.
It would support it in the most common cases, no? That is, if every line has (say) 10 fields, then the proposed 'uniq -F3' would be equivalent to the proposed 'uniq -k1,7'. I can't offhand think of good use cases for uniq -F that would not be subsumed by uniq -k.
