On 02/07/2012 03:56 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > Suppose that I have a table of the following, where the last column is > a number. I'd like to accumulate the number of rows that are the same > for all the remaining columns. > > A 1 > A 3 > X 2 > X 3 > Y 3 > > The result will be the following. Although this is can be easily done > by awk, etc, I'm wondering if it is worthwhile to add an additional > option '--accumulate' to uniq. I'd recommend adding such an option if > anybody in coreutils develop team also think this is useful. > > A 4 > X 5 > Y 3 >
Thanks for the suggestion, but this is too specialized for coreutils I think. cheers, Pádraig.
