Hi,
There seems to be a bug in uniq. To duplicate:
Use attached file and run it through uniq with –d. It then gives no output. If uniq is run without a flag then the original file is output from uniq.
Gerrie@GerrieM /cygdrive/c/adhoc/vodacom
$ uniq -d a.txt
Gerrie@GerrieM /cygdrive/c/adhoc/vodacom
Gerrie@GerrieM /cygdrive/c/adhoc/vodacom
$ uniq a.txt
084699880820120120100749
084800053520120120100741
084800053520120120100741
Gerrie@GerrieM /cygdrive/c/adhoc/vodacom
$ uniq --version
uniq (GNU coreutils) 8.10
Packaged by Cygwin (8.10-1)
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Richard M. Stallman and David MacKenzie.
This happens in the current version as well as 8-15-1.
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