Pádraig Brady wrote, On 02/11/2013 08:50 PM: > On 02/12/2013 01:31 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: >> >> I'd like to offer a proof-of-concept patch for adding sort-like "--key" >> support for the 'uniq' program, as discussed here: >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-06/msg00211.html >> and in several other threads. >> > I'm not going to look at it this week, but thank you! > Consolidating the field processing in a central place > is really good, and it can then be enhanced in future > to support multibyte chars etc. >
I'll continue in the meantime - the attached version passes all tests, and includes many new ones. also supports "--field-separator=SEP" (like sort), multiple keys, and tested unique by month/fast-numeric/general-numeric/case-insensitive. -gordon
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