[PLUG] Counting Files

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Tue Aug 17 06:46:15 UTC 2021


>From the uniq manpage:

  Note: 'uniq' does not detect repeated lines unless they are
adjacent.  You may want to sort the input first, or use 'sort -u'
without 'uniq'.  Also, comparisons honor the rules specified by
'LC_COLLATE'.

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 10:45 PM wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 8:45 PM Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > can you point me to where it is documented that `find` is guaranteed
> > to produce an ordered list?
> >
>
> I don't have any such documentation or belief. my belief is that uniq will
> count non-consecutive matches, that's what I'm relying on. however, sorting
> first doesn't hurt anything, so have at it.
>
> yeah, awk is often a more appropriate tool for this type of job, it's just
> that I happened to learn sed first, so I default to that. it's the same
> reason I use vi instead of emacs, it's largely down to complete coincidence.
>
> -wes



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