Maybe he was hoping for a uniq [-b|--bytes] ?

Suggestion to Shlomo (if you use bash):

  alias uniq='LC_ALL=C \uniq'

or, if you want it in your shell scripts too:

  uniq() { LC_ALL=C; "${type -P uniq}" "$@" ; }; export -f uniq

On 12/16/2013 9:33 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:

tag 16168 notabug
close 16168
stop

On 12/16/2013 01:50 PM, Shlomo Urbach wrote:

Lines with CJK letters are deemed equal by length only, since the
characters seem to be ignored.
I understand this is due to locale.
But, it would be nice if a simple flag would do a locale-free comparison
(i.e. equal = all bytes are equal).

If you want to compare byte by byte:

LC_ALL=C uniq ....

thanks,
Pǽdraig.